li-tree

Supported Features

Document✔
Media✗
Include✗
Document Creation Flow✗
Push Message✗
Table Dashboard✗
Display Filter✗
Search Indexing✗
System Metadata✗
Webhook Conditions✗

Description

The plugin li-tree lets you set up a tree with items of the 4 possible types group, link, document, multilang.

  • group -> a structural item without a link, just a label
  • link -> link to an external URL
  • document -> link to another Livingdocs document
  • multilang -> a special kind of item that holds links or documents with a label per language

Default UI

The main view lets you structure the menu. The detail let’s you edit one menu entry.

Storage Format

// schweiz -> link
//   zürich -> link
//   bern -> document
// deutschland -> multilang
//   hamburg -> link
//   berlin -> document
[
  {
    id: 'menu-schweiz',
    label: 'Schweiz',
    type: 'link',
    href: '/schweiz',
    items: [
      {
        id: 'menu-zuerich',
        label: 'Zürich',
        type: 'link',
        href: '/zuerich'
      },
      {
        id: 'menu-bern',
        label: 'Bern',
        type: 'document',
        reference: {
          id: '42',
          externalSystem: 'myExternalSystem', // optional, only if cross-project sharing enabled
          directiveId: 'doc-1a2b3c4f5:subtitle' // optional, only if anchor linking enabled
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    id: 'menu-deutschland',
    type: 'multilang',
    translations: {
      de: {
        label: 'Deutschland'
      },
      en: {
        label: 'Germany'
      }
    },
    items: [
      {
        id: 'menu-hamburg',
        label: 'Hamburg',
        type: 'link',
        href: '/hamburg'
      },
      {
        id: 'menu-berlin',
        label: 'Berlin',
        type: 'document',
        reference: {
          id: '991'
        }
      }
    ]
  }
]

Content Type Config

{
  handle: 'myContentType',
  // ...
  metadata: [
    {
      handle: 'myHandle'
      type: 'li-tree',
      config: {
        // common
        hideFromForm: false,                          // optional, default: false
        required: true,                               // optional, default: false
        requiredErrorMessage: 'Provide a value',      // optional
        // specific
        maxDepth: 3,                                  // default: undefined | tree depth
        allowedTypes: ['group', 'document', 'link'],  // default: ['group', 'document', 'link'], multilang is configured seperatly
        multilang: true,                             // optional, default: false

        // settings for document link
        document: {
          contentType: ['regular'],                   // default: all   | only be able to link contentType 'regular' | string or array of strings
          published: true                             // default: false | only be able to link published document
        }
      },
      ui: {
        label: 'foo',                                 // optional, takes camelized name otherwise
        config: {
          readOnly: true,                             // optional, default: false

          document: {                                 // define a Dashboard with filters
            useDashboard: 'my-dashboard',             //   reference to a custom dashboard
            baseFilters: [],                          //   https://docs.livingdocs.io/customising/advanced/editor-configuration/base-filter/
            displayFilters: []                        //   https://docs.livingdocs.io/customising/advanced/editor-configuration/display-filter/
          }
        }
      }
    }
    // ...
  ]
}

Additional Config

Multi-Language Handling

Added in: release-2023-07

To enable multi-language support in the tree, a new config property called multilang has been introduced. The available languages and the default language are inherited from the project’s Multi-Language configuration.

When Multi-Language support is enabled for a tree, it appears as shown below: Screenshot of the li-tree plugin displaying a multilang item.

In this case, the tree item is classified as multilang because it already contains two languages (de and en).

However, when adding a new item to the tree, only the default language is initially included, and additional languages can be added as needed.

If only the default language is present, the item type will be either group, link, or document, but not multilang.

This behavior simplifies the process of enabling Multi-Language support for existing trees, as there is no need to migrate data. Similarly, when disabling Multi-Language support for a tree that has translations, the user interface will display only the default language, while the underlying data structure retains the translations.

Tree items of type multilang can contain various types of links within their translations object. For example, the English link could refer to a document, while the German link could be a URL. It still adheres to the allowed types configuration, which means that mixed link types are possible, but only if they are included in the list of allowed types.

If multi-language is enabled for li-tree and the Display Filters for the document selection dialog are specifying a language filter, the dashboard will automatically preselect the correct language filter for an item. Users can still change the language filter setting.

To enable anchor linking (link to a section within a document), configure editable directives in design settings.