Component parameters for navigation element?

[cheshiredave]

I’ve created a component from a Navigation Inline element I’ve styled. I want to be able to make the specific menu able to be selected in each instance where I place the component (i.e., sometimes I will need a different menu loaded in that component).

I don’t see in the component parameter doc a way to create that opportunity. I did see in another forum topic that the “choose” parameter is not able to work with dynamic content (yet). Is that what I’m running up against?

If so, should I just be using templates for now?

(BTW it was extremely unclear how to use templates in the new CS – I only now just noticed them in the elements list after looking high and low for how to access them. The docs really need to be rewritten ASAP for the new CS since so many things are so different.)

[tristup]

Hi @cheshiredave,

Yes, you are correct here. Still, I will discuss with Charlie our lead developer on this, and let you know if anything comes up.

Thanks

[cheshiredave]

Someone suggested on the Facebook group that it might be possible to do it non-dynamically by figuring out the identity of each menu through the Inspector Breakout Mode (this tool should be highlighted in the docs BTW) and pre-populating the list with those identities. I haven’t tried it out yet though.

[charlie]

Internally we have a control type “menu” which is what all nav menus use. Unfortunately you can’t use that type in parameters, but I will add it to our lists and hopefully we can add all remaining inputs while we are at it. The actual nav menu selector can have dynamic content inserted via breakout mode. I agree templates can be more clear. When we add back in presets those templates will make more sense, but there is definitely some more streamlining we can do. Thanks for bringing this to our attention have a great weekend!

[cheshiredave]

Ah, ok – hopefully that does get added in.

[ruenel]

Thank you for your understanding, @cheshiredave.