Setting a Page to hidden by default

dawa

Hello,
I'm building a theme and want to exclude some Pages from the Navigation by default. I already searched here and in the Documentation, but I couldn't get a solution. Note: I only want to exclude two page templates by default, the others should not be hidden.
I've tried <@ set { hidden: true } @> at the top of the page template but had no success.
Is it possible to hide a page by default?

mad

dawa Hi, yes it is possible. You can add a template filter to the pagelist options of your navigation. For example:

<@ newPagelist { template: 'page|post' } @>

would only have pages using a template with a name that either contains page or post.

Check out the docs for newPagelist and the Recursive Navigations for more info.

dawa

Alright, thanks. So I came up with:
<@ pagelist { type: 'children', match: '{":level": "/2/"}', template: '^((?!template))' } @>
But that means that every page created using this template will never be in that defined pagelist - and that is not changeable. Let's say I sometimes want some of those pages using that template to show up on that pagelist - would it be best to just create a template that uses another name? Or can I define my own checkbox Variable, check for it in the match option of the pagelist and default it to true using @{ checkboxHidePage | def(true) }?

mad

dawa Hi, the def function is only meant to work for string values. I guess another option would be to use the match option for the pagelist that allows you to have a much more detailed control over the contained pages and can operate on multiple fields at the same time. That way you could also filter by matching URLs in combination with the template name for example. Or even the template and one extra checkbox like you mentioned that is tested to be false or true. Just note that you have to use regex to test the checkbox and that would translate to an emty or non-empty string instead of false and true.