[TYPO3-english] Flexible menu starting points

[JoH asenau]

> What would be more user friendly is to put only a checkbox "Menu
> starting point" but then i should do something like:
>
> if (levelfield:-1, menuroot, slide) == 1
>    special.value = pageID_of_the_page_where_this_is_true
>
> so i wonder if this is possible? Thx!

In this case a fully TS based version would need a rootline menu to get 
the uid of that particular page, but a userFunc might be the better 
choice regarding performance.

lib.menu = COA
lib.menu {
   10 = HMENU
   10 {
     special = rootline
     special.range = 0|-1
     1 = TMENU
     1.NO {
       doNotLinkIt = 1
       stdWrap.cObject = LOAD_REGISTER
       stdWrap.cObject {
         mystartingpoint.field = uid
         mystartingpoint.if.isTrue.field = menuroot
       }
     }
   }
   20 = HMENU
   20 {
     special = directory
     special.value.data = register:mystartingpoint
     ... more menu stuff here
   }
}

This way the register always gets the latest startingpoint from the 
rootline.
And you don't have to assign that field to the rootline fields anymore, 
since it is not fetched by levelfield.

HTH

Joey

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