Showing one child page in main navigation

Question

Is it possible to show one child page as a main navigation item? I tried the include parameter but it's not quite right.

The parameter "include=" can be used to selectively show specific pages from the same level. http://buildwithstructure.com/tags/navigation/

It needs to be a child page but also be a main navigation link.

Answer 1

Here's another solution from their docs:
Duplicate Pages In Navigation.

You can have pages live in more than one place in your navigation by creating a redirect to one “official” place the page lives.

Answer 2

My understanding is that this is not possible using Structure tags. The navigation works off the hierarchy.

Best option is to use jQuery to manually insert the navigation item. Here's a rough how-to:

Set your {exp:structure:nav} tag to use add_unique_ids="yes". Let's say this outputs:

<ul>
    <li id="link1"></li>
    <li id="link2"></li>
    <li id="link3"></li>
</ul>

Then use jQuery to insert your new nav link where appropriate. Something like this:

$('#link1').after('<li id="inserted"></li>');

This will get you this:

<ul>
    <li id="link1"></li>
<li id="inserted"></li>
    <li id="link2"></li>
    <li id="link3"></li>
</ul>

There may be a jump in the nav list as the item is inserted so I'd suggest hiding the UL with CSS and then showing it after the insert with JS... something like:

ul {
    display: none;
}

$('ul').show();

You'll need to adjust the selectors to work with your code.