Collection: Iterate over children

[Sennik]

Historically I always had all content related to a website hierarchically stored in one database and iterated over child sections to populate my navigation structure. I know I can do that by creating seperate collections an/or nav's but I like to continue the old way when possible (My customers are used to this approach).

I really like the possibility to use collections directly in navigation structures.

Is it possible to iterate over child sections in the following example?

I want to iterate over 'Main menu' for the Navbar en over Footer menu for the Footer navigation. In this example footer Menu has two columns with each 2 links.

[jasonvarga]

Collection trees are designed to organize the URL structure. You can only position an entry in there one time.

In this screenshot, you've created Main menu and Footer menu entries. I doubt you actually want those.

Short answer is no, you can't just have all your content together in one big blob.

Perhaps you could create a nav and then use collection tags inside it to loop over appropriate entries.

[Sennik]

I know how it can be done, just wanted to know if this was also a viable option. Too me it looks handy to be able to use part of a collection in the front-end.

Just to be sure:

So when I want to iterate over a section of the collection like this:

<ul>
{{ nav:collection:pages:main-menu }}
  <li>
    <a href="{{ url }}">{{ title }}</a>
  </li>
{{ /nav:collection:pages }}

I do not get:

• Solutions
• Products
• News
• Company
• Contact

I have to make this a seperate collection or make a navigation.

[jasonvarga]

You could try the from="/main-menu" param.

[Sennik]

Works! Thank you!