Add a "root parent children" navigation panel

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Anca Luca created this issue on 08/Mar/26 19:36

Summary:	Add a "root parent children" navigation panel
Issue Type:	New Feature
Affects Versions:	17.10.4, 17.8.0
Assignee:	Unassigned
Components:	Panels
Created:	08/Mar/26 19:36
Priority:	Major
Reporter:	Anca Luca
Description:	Today, in XWiki, there are a couple of navigation panels that can be configured for a page tree, that provide tree navigation features: the standard navigation panel, which displays the whole page tree of the wiki, according to its configuration from the administration (exclusions) the children panel, that displays all children of the current page the siblings macro, that shows pages on the same level as the current page etc. This issue is about adding a new panel available by default, that would display the navigation inside the first parent from the root of the wiki of the current page. For example, for a page A.B.C.WebHome, the panel would show a tree with the root in A, without showing A. For a page P.R.S.WebHome, the panel would show the tree with the root in P, without showing P.

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Changes by Anca Luca on 08/Mar/26 19:38

Description:

Today, in XWiki, there are a couple of navigation panels that can be configured for a page tree, that provide tree navigation features:
* the standard navigation panel, which displays the whole page tree of the wiki, according to its configuration from the administration (exclusions)
* the children panel, that displays all children of the current page
* the siblings macro, that shows pages on the same level as the current page
* etc.

This issue is about adding a new panel available by default, that would display the navigation inside the first parent from the root of the wiki of the current page.

For example, for a page A.B.C.WebHome, the panel would show a tree with the root in A, without showing A.

For a page P.R.S.WebHome, the panel would show the tree with the root in P, without showing P.

Although a navigation panel that shows a document tree with the root somewhere lower in the tree is both rather easy to write and not restricted to the toplevel pages, this panel would allow to cover a number of usecases, where navigation is expected at first level.

This panel is helpful towards the usecase of setting up "areas" of content in a wiki without creating subwikis, by simulating some form of toplevel units, that are "isolated" between eachother.

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	Anca Luca on 08/Mar/26 19:43

	A better yet version of this panel would dynamically display the navigation tree for the page where the panel is set. For example, imagine a page A.B.WebHome, that has some children also, C and D. Then, in the administration of page B, a panels configuration is made and this "root page navigation" panel is set. Then, when navigating to B, C or D, the panel would display a tree for navigating inside B, not inside A, because the setting is made at B level. Maybe both panels could be added, the simple one that is described in the description of this issue but also the fancy dynamic one described in this comment.

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