Other structure tags not working inside {exp:structure:nav} tag

Question

I have a scenario where I want 3 levels to show in my main menu, except for one specific level 2 page where I don't want to show its children.

Using hard-coded IDs works fine, eg: {exp:structure:nav start_from="/" show_depth="3" exclude="100|101|102" }

But when I replace the hard coded IDs with the structure tag that generates these IDs, it doesn't work: {exp:structure:nav start_from="/" show_depth="3" exclude="{structure:child_ids_for:14}" }

Anyone have any ideas? I've also tried using snippets and and embedded template and neither work, though a snippet does work when the hard-coded IDs are in the snippet, just not when {structure:child_ids_for:5} is in the snippet.

Here's the code I've tried using embeds:

In the header:
{embed="embeds/main_menu" hideStudentPages="{structure:child_ids_for:14}"}

In the embed:

{exp:structure:nav start_from="/" show_depth="3" include_ul="no" add_level_classes="yes" show_overview="yes" exclude="{embed:hideStudentPages}" }

Thanks in advance, Justin

Answer 1

Why not just use the start_from= tag? Would be a simpler approach than muddying up your templates with embeds.

You'd do something like this for each section:

{exp:structure:nav start_from="/about-us" show_depth='1' max_depth='1' has_children_class='yes' show_overview="yes"}

Configure your options for however you need the HTML markup to be on the front-end.

You can read about that here:

http://buildwithstructure.com/tags#tag_navigation