Anchors

[Name]

Hi,

Is there a way to allow users to dynamically add anchors to the navigation? We've been successful in doing so using redirects, however, this obviously refreshes the page.

[Jose Ross]

Hello, can you please provide more information about your setup? are you using the freemarker templates to generate a dynamic navigation?

[Name]

Hi,

Yes, I'm using the nav-macros similar to the default Editorial site. 

[Jose Ross]

There are a couple of features that could be useful for this:

1. Custom Navigation Attributes: using this feature you can make the dynamic navigation include more fields than just the url and the label. You will need to add a field in your content-types (something like an input with name navigationAnchor) and then add this property in your Engine Site Configuration File:
   <navigation>
   

   <additionalFields>navigationAnchor</additionalFields>
   

   </navigation>
   
   
   
2. Custom Navigation Macros: using this feature you can change the template in any way to use the custom attribute added in the previous step, something like this:
   <#macro renderNavItem navItem>
   

   <li <#if navItem.active>class="active"</#if>><a href="${navItem.url}#${navItem.attributes.navigationAnchor}">${navItem.label}</a></li>
   

   </#macro>
   

You can find details about the custom macros here https://docs.craftercms.org/en/3.1/developers/projects/engine/api/templating-api.html#using-custom-macros