Top Nav Bar > Get External Link URL Text Like Autonav #10742
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get explicit link text from external link collections, to target anchors, like core autonav block
get external link text for url like autonav
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By all appearances X links can't have children. Not added/copied/moved through sitemap anyway. Maybe the third (first) instance in the view should be replaced as well to cover tweak cases where an external link somehow has a child... |
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This can be seen working v9.1.1 at https://juspimpin.com, where clicking external or external 2 in the top nav will do exactly as the autonav directly below it does. In this test case I give both external link pages a url of '#link', and use @mlocati empty anchor MP package in a global footer area to create the anchor. |
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Note the core Page List block appears to be rendering anchor links in this manner as well. (Correctly like autonav) Which is pretty cool, and unknown to me until now. We can build "lists" of external links in the sitemap and display them as page lists that link to sections of any page (or the x links), using dates and descriptions as applied to the external link pages themselves! Haven't gotten any response from @rosie607 in the forums but I'm certain this solves the issue / introduces the functionality @rosie607 is looking for... |
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Closing in favor of #10776 |
This PR implements a new Top Nav Bar block controller method to get us clean external link url text from external link pages that appear in the nav, similar to how the core autonav block renders external links.
This should solve the issues at https://forums.concretecms.org/t/url-in-top-navigation-bar-block-including-full-site-path/3361 where additional description of the issues can be found...