I did something similar on a project. You can see it at
http://cfas.cfwebtools.com
Make your nav file accept another attribute (bIncludeParent) and use the
logic at the top of the file to set it if it's not passed. Here's what you
put before the loop:
if (attributes.bIncludeParent) {
writeOutput("<a class=""parentLink""
href=""#application.url.conjurer#?objectid=#application.factory.oTree.getNod
e(application.factory.oTree.getParentID(attributes.navid).parentID[1]).objec
tid#"">#application.factory.oTree.getNode(application.factory.oTree.getParen
tID(attributes.navid).parentID[1]).objectName#</a>");
}
The call you are particularly interested in is:
This takes the object id of the parent and gets that particular nav node:
application.factory.oTree.getNode(application.factory.oTree.getParentID(attr
ibutes.navid).parentID[1]).objectid
This gets the objected of the parent:
application.factory.oTree.getParentID(attributes.navid).parentID[1]
So, you can see, get the objected of the parent, pass it to getNode and then
you have .objectID and .objectName at your disposal for the link.
Hope that helps!
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Jake Churchill
CF Webtools
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jaci
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:46 AM
To: farcry-dev
Subject: [farcry-dev] can not get parent
I have searched through the posts and have found a lot of postings
about using getdescendants and getancestors and getparent but can't
seem to get any of them to work. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong
or if perhaps there is something wrong with my install. So
frustrating.
Here's what I want. I have a template that has a call to include file
for the navigation based on the page.
I'm using the genericNav:
<skin:genericNav navID="#request.navid#"
id="nav"
depth="2"
bActive="true"
bIncludeHome="false">
Which works fine..gets me the next two levels down.
However the part of struggling with is that above the nav I want to
display the parent nav title that these links belong to. So for
instance if my site tree looks like this:
ACADEMICS
- Academic Divisions
- Arts & Humanities
- Business Technologies
- Mathematics
When I click on Academic Divisions I want my two levels of sub
navigation to show at the left under the header Academic Divisions.
I've passed the pages stobj.objectid to the included file as an
attribute but when I try to pass it to the getparent function it says:
The argument OBJECTID passed to function getAncestors() is not of type
UUID.
I feel like I've been working on this for ages and I'm not making much
progress...I defer to the brains of group to help.
Jaci
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