Theming

To be able to theme the list generated by WayFinder to appear as menus, we need to understand how WayFinder works in more detail. In this section, we will show you step-by-step how to create a simple menu without any sub-items, and then proceed to creating menus with sub-items.

Creating a simple menu

Since, for now, we only want a menu without any submenu items, we have to show resources only from the top level of the resource tree. By default, WayFinder will reflect the complete structure of the resource tree, including the resources within containers, as seen in the preceding screenshot. WayFinder lets you choose the depth of the list via the &level parameter. The parameter &level takes a value indicating the number of levels that WayFinder should include in the menu. For our example, because we only want a simple menu with no submenu items, &level is set to 1.

Now, let us change the testing wayfinder resource, which we just created, to the following code:

[[Wayfinder?startId...