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kirkroberts replied on Dec 21, 2009 at 7:40 am Permalink Reply

Found out that you can create a custom page attribute (checkbox) with a handle of "replace_link_with_first_in_nav" and the AutoNav block will use the first child's link in place of the parent. Good!

But I'm also wondering if this is possible:
With a structure like this...
/section/
/section/page/
*any* link to /section/ will go to /section/page/.
eg if someone types it in

How can this be achieved?

Remo replied on Dec 21, 2009 at 7:58 am Permalink Reply

If you understand German, I've posted an approach on Concrete5.ch:

http://www.concrete5.ch/board/?topicID=21...

kirkroberts replied on Dec 21, 2009 at 10:32 am Permalink Reply

I can't read German, but I guess Google Translator does a passable job. Totally messes up the code, though :-)

So I get this from that thread (taking out the conditionals...):

$nh = Loader::helper('navigation'); 
$subPage = $c->getFirstChild(); 
$pageLink = $nh->getLinkToCollection($subPage); 
print("the child link: " . $pageLink);

But it doesn't work, giving me this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function getCollectionPath() on a non-object in [...]/concrete/helpers/navigation.php on line 36

I bet this would be easy if only I knew what I was doing :-)

Remo replied on Dec 21, 2009 at 10:59 am Permalink Reply

the function which gets called should have a parameter, $page in my example.

I think it should be $page->getFirstChild()

(haven't tested it)

kirkroberts replied on Dec 21, 2009 at 12:17 pm Permalink Reply

Whoops, turns out the previous code *did* work.

So, if anyone wants to force a page to go to its first child page this code at the very top of a page type will do the trick:

defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die(_("Access Denied."));
// redirect to first child
$nh = Loader::helper('navigation'); 
$subPage = $c->getFirstChild(); 
$pageLink = $nh->getLinkToCollection($subPage); 
header('Location: ' . $pageLink);

Not sure what would happen if the first child happened to be an external link (not a page). Use with caution.

Thanks for your help, Remo!

ps - if there is a way to do this with c5's core (aliases?) I'd love to know about it.

kutis replied on Jan 28, 2010 at 12:20 am Permalink Reply

thanks kirk,

the code needs a minor fix though...

<?php  
defined('C5_EXECUTE') or die(_("Access Denied."));
// redirect to first child
$nh = Loader::helper('navigation'); 
$subPage = $c->getFirstChild(); 
if($subPage){
   $pageLink = @$nh->getLinkToCollection($subPage); 
   header('Location: ' . $pageLink);
}
?>

pixelfish replied on Feb 9, 2010 at 12:45 pm Permalink Reply

Hi, I copied your code Kutis and it works but now my parent link is not selected as active.

It has an 'a' class of 'nav-path-selected' but so does the 'home'. So if i add a style to that class both the home and portfolio page will have the selected class.

am i doing something wrong?

mbayhylle replied on Feb 9, 2010 at 3:16 pm Permalink Reply

I tried copying this and it wouldn't work. I basically want the top-most link (parent link) to be inactive on the navigation. So far, I haven't been able to find anything that works.

the site ishttp://www.hawkletsxc.org/c5dev and what the coach wants is for the parent item in the navigation to not link to anything or somehow link to '#'.

kirkroberts replied on Feb 10, 2010 at 10:07 am Permalink Reply

@mbayhylle
If I understand you correctly, this technique won't work for what you're trying to do. This is only if you want the parent item to still be a link, but have it link to the first child item (so two links in the nav go to the same page). The code above is a safeguard in case someone types the address of the parent item in, or has a direct link to it somehow. Otherwise, the auto-nav block can take care of the linking (see the first comment in this thread).

I'm not sure why someone would want a nav link to not go anywhere. As a user I find that frustrating. But I understand you might not be calling the shots :-)

For what you're trying to do, if all top links are to be inactive you could potentially template the auto-nav block to do that. Have it omit the link tags on the first pass through.

stokini replied on Feb 10, 2010 at 1:01 pm Permalink Reply

As an alternative, you could use css to make the top-level links *appear* not to be links:

.nav > li a:hover { cursor: default; }

PurpleEdge replied on Mar 2, 2010 at 12:02 am Permalink Reply

If you look at the left menus on this site...

http://thenorthernbeaches.com.au...

..the main links are simply category headers.

Most other cms allow for the creation of such links, I think it would be handy to have this capability in Concrete5. The alternative is to go to a sub-page listing the sub-categories, but I find this a bit superfluous?

zoinks replied on Mar 18, 2010 at 5:27 pm Permalink Reply

I think this is the same question/problem I'm having so I'm just posting in this thread until I have time to read it (so it is easier for me to find this page again later on)... hope you found a solution.

I want my Parent to redirect to the first Child in my Breadcrumbs navigation.

zoinks replied on Jul 11, 2011 at 8:42 am Permalink Reply

Awesome! For anyone who doesn't understand, this works for DIRECT LINKING (as opposed to auto-nav). For the auto-nav to redirect to the First Child, you need to add the attribute "replace_link_with_first_in_nav" as a checkbox and then add add it it to your Parent as a Custom Attribute.

BUT, if you're going to have other kinds of linkage beside an auto-nav that you want to redirect to that First Child, too, then you just make a special Page Type for that Parent and the full template is basically this code Kirk has come up with. But, as Kutis pointed out, you need to wrap it in <?php ?> tags, obviously.

Thank you!

smilenstacy replied on Feb 21, 2012 at 2:36 pm Permalink Reply

How do you add this "replace_link_with_first_in_nav" attribute? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Thanks!

kirkroberts replied on Feb 21, 2012 at 2:44 pm Permalink Reply

First you need to create the page property/attribute.
In the admin area / dashboard look for Page Types and Page Attributes.
There you can create a checkbox/boolean attribute and make sure the attribute handle matches the replace_with_first_.... text (sorry, forgot to copy exactly what it is before I started replying :-)
Then on any given page in the Page Properties you can select that attribute.
Does that help?

smilenstacy replied on Feb 21, 2012 at 2:53 pm Permalink Reply

Yup, works perfectly, thanks so much!

DtotheOR replied on Aug 19, 2011 at 10:44 am Permalink Reply

Thank you so much for this information! How did you figure out that there is a handle that does this functionality? Is there some file that has a list of inactivated handles?

kirkroberts replied on Aug 19, 2011 at 2:21 pm Permalink Reply

DtotheOR, for me it's just been a lot of looking around the forums and digging around in the core files.

I think that property was suggested early on by a power user (Remo?) and the Concrete5 team eventually added it to the core.