Mark-H/MenuExtended — Issue #1: Tokens to be remembered more easily
Author: mindeffects
Created: 2011-11-18 07:26:20+00:00
State: open

Hi Mark,
I like your idea for this menu-snippet for MODX since I myself also had these cases where such finctionality would have been very useful.

Some thoughts of mine about the used tokens:
» [[MenuExtended? &resources=`2+,3*,4`]]
» 1. No token: show this resource and all its (first-level) children. We’re using this for ID 4 (About Us).
» 2. An asterix (*): indicates we only want the parent, in this case that’s for the blog (ID 3).
» 3. A + sign: indicates we only want the children, we’re using that for the shop categories (parent ID 2).

1. "no token" should be the standard, displaying just first-level children (like "wayfinder" without the option "&displayStart ").
2. "-" should display "less", i.e. only the parents (read "-" more like "one step back")
3. "+" should display "more", i.e. the resource and its children.

Maybe this way the tokens can be remembered a little easier.
Just my 2 cents.

Oliver