couldn't you also use request.navid to get the parent.Or I guess that would
only work for the base level....

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Blair McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:

> I know it's possible, but not the details. It is possible to override the
> function genericnav uses to get the tree it displays. Basically there are a
> bunch of functions in oTree that can be used instead of the default. You
> will probably have to look at the code of both to work it out, but you
> should start by adding these attributes to the genericnav tag:
> functionMethod="getBloodLine" functionArgs="levelsabove=1,levelsbelow=1"
>
> Blair
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:35 PM, James Buckingham <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Group,
>>
>> I've been asked by Editors if it's possible to add a section's parent
>> into the secondary menu of our site.
>>
>> So say we're in the "About" section, currently we have "About" in the
>> top navigation and then all it's children in a menu on the LHS. What
>> they want is "About" to also be added to the LHS menu, sitting at the
>> top.
>>
>> I've done a bit of looking into it and can't see a way I can do this
>> without them adding a new page in the Site tree and putting a redirect
>> on it. Ideally I'd like to automate this within the template if I can.
>>
>> I've tried looking at the oTree.getAncestors method but a) I don't
>> know how I get the objectID of the parent from the current section and
>> b) It seems to return everything sitting in the same level as
>> "About" (i.e. Home page, news, contact etc.)
>>
>> Has anyone got any pointers?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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