Using S-Tag to create a dynamic nav menu

Kate Foote · April 2016

I'm a bit new to S-Tags, so forgive me if this is totally obvious. In any case, we use reusable pages to create a nav menu for Teamraiser wrappers. Currently, I'm copying over a previous reusable, re-naming it for the event I'm working on, then re-linking the nav with the proper TR ID. The links are basic -- just 'Home' and 'Donate'. I'm wondering if there is an S-Tag I can use that will pull in the current TR ID so that I don't need to create a new re-usable for each one.

I tried replacing this: TR/Events/ResponsiveTR?fr_id=2940&pg=entry

with this:TR/Events/ResponsiveTR?[[S42:fr_id ]]&pg=entry

But no luck. Am I on the right track? Is this doable?

Thanks!

Kate Foote · April 2016

I've also tried the S80 tag to no avail: TR/Events/ResponsiveTR?[[S80:trID]]&pg=entry

Jon Reich · April 2016

Hey Kate... make sure you're only replacing the actual ID number w/ the tag... not the full "fr_id=2940" part... just the "2940" part. - Jon

Jeremy Reynolds · April 2016

Kate Foote:

I tried replacing this: TR/Events/ResponsiveTR?fr_id=2940&pg=entry

with this:TR/Events/ResponsiveTR?[[S42:fr_id ]]&pg=entry

You want TR/Events/ResponsiveTR?fr_id=[[S42:0:fr-id]]&pg=entry

Keep in mind that your system might not know the right fr-id, so it's often a good idea to set the ID somwhere as a session variable and then reuse it with S80. For example, you could add [[U0:myFRID=[[S42:0:fr-id]]]] to your page wrapper, and then your url becomes TR/Events/ResponsiveTR?fr_id=[[S80:myFRID]]&pg=entry

I can't find the thread at the moment, but the advanced advanced users tend to have a more sophisiticated way to set U0 (so that it catches tr-id in several different contexts and works around bugs with S42:0), but this should get you started.

Using S-Tag to create a dynamic nav menu

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