No collections in Navigation?

[Magnusvb]

Hi
First time using Statamic for a looong time. :)

I have tried to create a navigation using the Dashbord. In the settings I selected two collections: Test 1 and Test 2. Added the code to the layout template, like so:

<ul>
     {{ nav:main }}
          <li><a href="{{ url }}">{{ title }}</a></li>
     {{ /nav:main }}
</ul>

But, the only link I got is "Home". And the Home page is in the Pages collection - which I did not select when creating the nav... (very strange)

So, what am I missing ?

/ Magnus

[duncanmcclean]

Have you added any entries to the navigation?

[Magnusvb]

Hi
No, I had not added any entries to the collections. Did that, but still the same.
But, I will start from scratch - I must have missed something crucial and I feel a little lost right now.

[andjsch]

You need to add the collections you want to choose from to the navigation. Do so by editing the main navigation. See the screenshot below

[Magnusvb]

I think that is what I have done. This is how the navigation is set up.
After some further tries, it seems like there is no loop - I only see the present page in the menu.

[edalzell]

and now lets see the main navigation data

[jasonvarga]

Are you on the home page when viewing this? If you visit another page with this template on it, does it show that pages title in the nav tag?

A common issue when using looping tags is that if there are no results, it will fall back to data from the current page.

If the navigation is empty, you will see what I've described.

[Magnusvb]

Not sure what you mean by "added anything to the menu".

Well, I started over with a clean new site. Followed the Quick start guide. But still, only the present page is in the menu.

So, I tried with "the manual method" and added the Nav tag like this:

<ul class="flex">
    {{ nav:collection:pages include_home="true" }}
        <li class="flex-auto">
          <a href="{{ url }}"{{ if is_current || is_parent }} class="current"{{ /if }}>
            {{ title }}
          </a>
        </li>
      {{ /nav:collection:pages }}
    </ul>

This is working :). The drawback is (as I understand it) that I have to organise everything under the collection Pages. My plan was to use Pages for single entries page and create new collections for multi entries pages (like a blog).

I hope this will do. :)

[jacksleight]

Not sure what you mean by "added anything to the menu".

[Magnusvb]

Alright. Now I get it (I hope ;)
So I have to both configure the nav by select the collections (under "Option") and add Nav items?

[jacksleight]

The navigations feature lets you build custom lists of entries from the collections selected in the config, useful if you want a single list of links that go to entries from different collections (or just random URLs), or want a custom order/subset of entries. If you want a list of links that mirrors a collection exactly you can just use the nav:collection tag as you've done above.

[burfbari]

The {{ nav }} tag will only output entries for Orderable collections.

from the Docs

[Magnusvb]

Thanks! I missed that - but sad to say, it did not solved the problem.