Ultimateparent in navigation

[Peter Knight]

In MODX there's a snippet call Ultimate Parent.

I use it for building sub-menus on the left navigation of my pages. IE Whereas my top nav would list all level 1 pages, UltimateParent would only list sub-pages of the current Page.

@example [[ultimateParent? &id=`45` &top=`6`]]
* Will find the ultimate parent of document 45 if it is a child of document 6;
* otherwise it will return 45.
*
* @example [[ultimateParent? &topLevel=`2`]]
* Will find the ultimate parent of the current document at a depth of 2 levels
* in the document hierarchy, with the root level being level 1.
*
* This snippet travels up the document tree from a specified document and
* returns the "ultimate" parent. Version 2.0 was rewritten to use the new
* getParentIds function features available only in MODx 0.9.5 or later.
*

Is there a PW module for this or would it be simply a case of using some PHP with the API?

[Martijn Geerts]

Maybe this:

$page->rootParent

or 

$page->closest($selector)

[LostKobrakai]

… UltimateParent would only list sub-pages of the current Page.

This would be: 

$subpages = $page->children;

[Peter Knight]

Can it be done with Soma's SimpleMarkupNavigation? It seems to have more control over setting the options but I can only seem to work it by starting at the root and not the parent

 <?php $treeMenu = $modules->get("MarkupSimpleNavigation"); // load the module
		  
		  $options = array(
				'parent_class' => 'parent',
				'current_class' => 'current',
				'has_children_class' => 'has_children',
				'levels' => true,
				'levels_prefix' => 'level-',
				'max_levels' => 1,
				'firstlast' => false,
				'collapsed' => true,
				'show_root' => true,
				'selector' => '',
				'selector_field' => 'nav_selector',
				'outer_tpl' => '<ul>||</ul>',
				'inner_tpl' => '<ul>||</ul>',
				'list_tpl' => '<li%s>||</li>',
				'list_field_class' => '',
				'item_tpl' => '<a href="{url}">{title}</a>',
				'item_current_tpl' => '<a href="{url}">{title}</a>',
				'xtemplates' => '',
				'xitem_tpl' => '<a href="{url}">{title}</a>',
				'xitem_current_tpl' => '<span>{title}</span>',
				'date_format' => 'Y/m/d',
				'code_formatting' => false,
				'debug' => false
			);
				echo $treeMenu->render($options); // render default menu ?> 

[mr-fan]

Maybe its worth to check this one....for me this is menubuilding like a boss

http://modules.processwire.com/modules/markup-simple-navigation/

nearly erverthing could setup with this one sometimes with little addtions but this addon is a real timesaver.

[LostKobrakai]

I don't know the module, but 'selector' => '',  'selector_field' => 'nav_selector' should be your friend in setting the parent, if I understand it right.

[mr-fan]

Hi sparrow,

(RDFM) you will found this direct under the addonsdownload:

• Overwrite current page or root page
• Build a menu using a PageArray instead of a single root page

so may you've got two menus one for the firstlevel and one for the second/subsites.

In the basic theme that is shipped with the installation there is an example with the API and some if/foreach stuff that works without the addon.

regards mr-fan

more deeper in the added/updates section there is a good example to test/try

added support for nav_selector property/field and selector_leveln (new in 1.2.1)

You can now add a special property "nav_selector' to page(s) to define custom selector for rendering their children. This can be done on runtime or via a custom field added to pages to remotely control the selector. You can configure the name of the field by using the newly added option "selector_field". MarkupSimpleNavigation will look out for it and use it, otherwise it will use the "selector" option.

You can now define selector on a per level basis. Simply use the _leveln suffix on the "selector" option, where n is the level number from the root parent. This is best illustrated by the following example:

$pages->get(1001)->my_selector = "template=projects";

$options = array(
  "selector_level1" => "template=ressort",
  "selector_level2" => "start=0, limit=10",
  "selector_level3" => "template=news|events, sort=-created",
  "selector_field" => "my_selector"
);

echo $nav->render($options);

Note that "my_selector" has priority and will overwrite any other selctor or selector_leveln

[Soma]

Something like this can be done

Top root menu

// default root is "/"
echo $treeMenu->render(array("max_levels" => 1));

Submenu 

$root = $page->rootParent; // top root parent of current page
echo $treeMenu->render(array("max_levels" => 1), null, $root);

[Peter Knight]

Thanks Soma. Happy days 

@mr-fan Re. RTFM you're right. I need to familiarise myself with selectors more and how to use them. hazards of choosing a new CMS on a tight deadline.

[mr-fan]

I switched CMS too......I've the comfort of a small project without a deadline.

But learning PW is faster as any other cms !

As fast as this forum and the real talented users share and awnsers

[Peter Knight]

I'm late getting back to this 

Just to recap, I have a side navigation bar. For the purposes of explanation, if it was completely expanded (which it never is), it would look like this

• Products
  • Rockets
  • Spacecraft
  • Submarines
• Staff
  • Engineering Team
    • Alan
    • John
    • Miriam
  • Ballistics Team
    • Phil
    • Tracey
    • Liam
  • Strategy & Planning Team
    • Peter
    • Adrian
    • Mary
• Locations
  • Moon
    • Station Lunar
    • Station Solar
  • Earth
    • USA
    • Germany
    • Ireland
    • France
    • England

The menu correctly displays as 

• Products
• Staff
• Location

with ​'max_levels' => 1

However if I was to send someone a direct link to a level 3 page ( Staff > Ballistics Team > Tracey)

then I want the side menu to display that page, all level 3 siblings (Phil, Tracey and Liam), it's level 2 root pages and it's level 1 parent(s)

• Products
• Staff
  • Engineering Team
  • Ballistics Team
    • Phil
    • Tracey
    • Liam
  • Strategy & Planning Team
• Locations

As mentioned by mar-fan there has since been options added for selector_leveln properties but I'm not sure if thats what I need?

added support for nav_selector property/field and selector_leveln (new in 1.2.1)

Here's my working menu which has  ​'max_levels' => 1

<?php $treeMenu = $modules->get("MarkupSimpleNavigation"); // load the module
		  
		 	 $options = array(
				'parent_class' => 'parent',
				'current_class' => 'current',
				'has_children_class' => 'has_children',
				'levels' => true,
				'levels_prefix' => 'level-',
				'max_levels' => 1,
				'firstlast' => true,
				'collapsed' => false,
				'show_root' => true,
				'selector' => '',
				'selector_field' => 'nav_selector',
				'outer_tpl' => '<ul class="sidelist">||</ul>',
				'inner_tpl' => '<ul>||</ul>',
				'list_tpl' => '<li%s >||</li>',
				'list_field_class' => '',
				'item_tpl' => '<a href="{url}">{title}</a>',
				'item_current_tpl' => '<a href="{url}" >{title}</a>',
				'xtemplates' => '',
				'xitem_tpl' => '<a href="{url}">{title}</a>',
				'xitem_current_tpl' => '<span>{title}</span>',
				'date_format' => 'Y/m/d',
				'code_formatting' => false,
				'debug' => false
			);

		$root = $page->rootParent; // Start from the top root parent of current page
		echo $treeMenu->render($options, null, $root);
	
	
?>	

Thanks guys.

[Soma]

I'm not sure I understand it correctly. But what if you set

'max_levels' => 3,
'collapsed' => true,

collapsed means it only shows the current branches.

[Peter Knight]

@Soma

That's what I needed. I hadn't tried those two in conjunction with each other.