Using automatic sidebar menus with multiple top-level sections in /content/en/?

[johnnymatthews]

TLDR: is there a way to automatically generate the sidebar menu for multiple topbar sections?

I'm attempting to create two main sections (the top bar navigation) in a Doks site while using the automatic sidebar. Sorry, I don't have a public repo to show you yet.

Here's the structure I've got:

en
├── _index.md
├── alan
│   ├── _index.md
│   └── brian
│       ├── _index.md
│       ├── brian-commands.md
│       ├── brian-introduction.md
│       └── brian-quick-start.md
└── docs
    ├── _index.md
    ├── help
    │   ├── _index.md
    │   ├── faq.md
    │   ├── how-to-update.md
    │   └── troubleshooting.md
    └── prologue
        ├── _index.md
        ├── commands.md
        ├── introduction.md
        └── quick-start.md

Pages within the alan section contain the following menu front-matter:

menu:
  alan:
    parent: "brian"

My menus.en.toml file looks like this:

[[main]]
  name = "Docs"
  url = "/docs/prologue/introduction/"
  weight = 10

[[main]]
  name = "Alan"
  url = "/alan/brian/"
  weight = 10

[[docs]]
  name = "Prologue"
  weight = 10
  identifier = "prologue"
  url = "/docs/prologue/"

[[docs]]
  name = "Help"
  weight = 60
  identifier = "help"
  url = "/docs/help/"

[[alan]]
  name = "Brian"
  weight = 10
  identifier = "brian"
  url = "/alan/brian/"

Unfortunately, if I go to /alan/brian/brian-introduction/, I don't get a sidebar menu:

Is there a way to automate the sidebar menu for individual directories in /content/en/?

[h-enk]

Not sure what's wrong with your setup. It should work out of the box. If you have repo available, I could be of better help.

Can't replicate it. What I did on a fresh install:

• run npm run create -- --kind docs tutorials
• add to ./config/_default/menus/menus.en.toml:

  [[main]]
    name = "Tutorials"
    url = "/tutorials/"
    weight = 15

• in ./config/_default/params.toml set (needed for smaller screen sizes):

  [sections]
    sectionNav = ["docs", "tutorials"]

And, it "just" works: https://doks-817.netlify.app/tutorials/lorem/ipsum/

[johnnymatthews]

🤦 I wasn't using the npm run create commands. My bad. Works perfectly now! Thanks for the heads up!