Changing Wayfinder startId Based on the Current Section with if

A practical Wayfinder trick for choosing different start points depending on the current page or parent section.

One menu tree does not always fit every section. the underlying example used the if snippet to switch Wayfinder’s startId dynamically depending on whether the current page belonged to a special section or should fall back to the parent branch.

Example idea

[!Wayfinder?
&rowTpl=`rowTplZ`
[[if?
&is=`[*id*]:in:6`
&then=`&startId=[*id*]`
&else=`&startId=[*parent*]`
]]
!]

Why this helps

You can keep one menu definition while adapting it to local context.
Special landing sections can become their own menu roots.
Ordinary pages can still inherit the expected parent-based navigation.

This is a good example of using small conditional logic to keep navigation flexible without duplicating whole menu snippets.

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