Hi Mat,

Will a page be assigned to more than one group?

Hi Simon,

No they will only ever be in one group and those groups will be accessible from every page as it will form the main navigation.

Hi Drew,

Would you be able to provide a small example of what you mean? I'll start digging through the documentation again around page attributes. would that essentially give them the option to choose which heading the page belongs to, then I could use the if statements to generate the navigation under each heading?

***Edit

I've just watch the swift migrations video Rachel did and I think I'm starting to understand. Because all pages attributes are available to my navigation I can just setup in my navigation templates the if something is equal statements and generate the heading in that manner.

Hi Mat,

If there aren't any other complications/requirements could you structure your pages like this?:

Page: Group A (main listing page) => Page: A1 (child page) => Page: A2 (child page)

Page: Group B (main listing page) => Page: B1 (child page) => Page: B2 (child page)

Page: Group C (main listing page) => Page: C1 (child page) => Page: C2 (child page)

On the main listing pages, to output navigation showing only the child pages for that section you can use:

<?php 
    perch_pages_navigation(array(
        'from-path' => '*',
        'levels'    => 1,
        'include-parent'       => false,
    ));
?>

On the child pages, to show only the pages in the same group you can use:

<?php 
    perch_pages_navigation(array(
        'from-path' => '*',
        'levels'    => 1,
        'include-parent'       => false,
        'siblings'             => false,
    ));
?>

I think that's right. Info is here:https://docs.grabaperch.com/docs/navigation/perch-pages-navigation/

Hi guys,

I have:

<perch:if different="navgroup">

    <h1><perch:pages id="navgroup" /></h1>

    <perch:before>
        <ul>
    </perch:before>

        <li<perch:if exists="current_page"> class="selected"</perch:if><perch:if exists="ancestor_page"> class="ancestor"</perch:if>>
            <a href="<perch:pages id="pagePath" />"><perch:pages id="pageNavText" /></a>   
            <perch:pages id="subitems" encode="false" />
        </li>

    <perch:after>
        </ul>
    </perch:after>

</perch:if>

This is doing what I want and producing the title divider however I can't work out how to make the title appear and a new list start. I've tried moving the if and before around and each time it's not quite doing what I want. At the moment this whole thing is wrapped in a ul and then within that is my headings diving the 'li'. I feel I'm on the right tracks now...

The user can choose which heading to assign a navigation item to. So I need a way to force the start of a new unordered list for each heading.

Update

I don't know if this is a bad way of doing things but I removed the use of <perch:before> and instead use my if statements to define the output of the ul like so:

<perch:if different="navgroup">
    <h1><perch:pages id="navgroup" /></h1>
    <ul>
</perch:if>

    <li<perch:if exists="current_page"> class="selected"</perch:if><perch:if exists="ancestor_page"> class="ancestor"</perch:if>>
        <a href="<perch:pages id="pagePath" />"><perch:pages id="pageNavText" /></a>   
        <perch:pages id="subitems" encode="false" />
    </li>

<perch:if different="navgroup">
    </ul>
</perch:if>

Actually above solution doesn't fully work. After adding a second item to group its appearing outside the ul for some reason. It seems thid method might not work !

Tried switching to some different if statements but the same result. How come it's only placing one list item in the new unordered list?

Hi Drew,

Guessing it should but I'm not sure what I could use to cure the issue. The output shows the navgroup being assigned correctly:

https://codepen.io/vdecree/pen/bNJKXL (sorry couldnt figure out how to get this data here so used a codepen). I feel bad as I should probably be able to get the carrot you're giving me!

Spot on Drew, works a treat. Many thanks as ever!