Parent - child navigation for side bar

I am trying to create a navigation enhancement:

The raw search text:

%SEARCH{ "^%BASETOPIC%$" scope="topic" web="%BASEWEB%" regex="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" zeroresults="off" format="- $parent(15, ...) %BR%" }%
*%BASETOPIC%* %BR%
%METASEARCH{type="parent" topic="%BASETOPIC%" format="- $topic(15, ...) %BR%"}%

Somehow I cannot get the parent right: when there is none, nothing should be displayed.

Furter, although the format says to put a BR after each found topic, some topics are listed next to each other.

-- ArthurClemens - 05 Feb 2006

Maybe you describe in more detail what you are trying to do here. What about a mockup.

works fine on a dakar engine.

-- MichaelDaum - 06 Feb 2006

I am trying to re-implement the navigation part in http://visiblearea.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Flash/Design_.

What I need is:

ParentTopic
CurrentTopic
ChildTopic 1
ChildTopic 2
ChildTopic 3
ChildTopic 4
ChildTopic 5
ChildTopic 6
ChildTopic 7
ChildTopic 8

Parent and children should be found in the current web (BASEWEB).

-- ArthurClemens - 06 Feb 2006

try the TreePlugin

-- SteveStark - 18 Nov 2006

Since revision 11927 meta search understands format parameters. The search string now is:

%SEARCH{ "^%BASETOPIC%$" scope="topic" web="%BASEWEB%" type="regex" nonoise="on" format="   * $parent" }%
   * *%BASETOPIC%*
%METASEARCH{type="parent" topic="%BASETOPIC%" format="   * $topic"}%

-- ArthurClemens - 18 Nov 2006

This is now implemented in HierarchicalNavigation.

-- ArthurClemens - 21 Apr 2007