display entries inside nav

Question

I'm building an overview page that will show a title, thumbnail, etc of the pages inside the structure. I want the nav children to start at the parent page we're currently on. I can get the correct elements to display - they just don't have any entry data like title. If there's a better way to approach this let me know.

{% set overview = (entry.level == 1) ? entry : entry.getAncestors().level(1).first() %}

{% nav entry in overview %}

{{ cycle(['<div class="overviewrow">', '', '', ''], loop.index0)|raw }}
    <div class="col">
        <a class="marketlink href="{{ entry.url }}">
        <div class="marketwrap">
            {% for block in entry.contents.type('image').limit(1) %}
            {% if block.image | length %}
            {% for image in block.image.limit(1) %}    
                      <img src="{{ image.getUrl('blogThumb')}}" alt="{{ image.altText }}">   
            {% endfor %} 
            {% else %}
                      <img src="/something.jpg">
            {% endif %} 
          {% endfor %} 
                      <div>{{ entry.title }}</div>
        </div></a></div>
        {% ifchildren %}
                {% children %}
        {% endifchildren %}

  {{ cycle(['', '', '', '</div>'], loop.index0)|raw }}


 {% endnav %}

Answer 1

You don't necessarily need to use the nav tag, you can just spin through the entries in a normal {% for entry in entries %} loop, making use of the level property and the getDescendants method.

There are some good suggestions for more complicated nav code in this answer:

How do you handle complex navigation in Craft?

and there's some good pointers in the answers to this question:

Custom or complex nav tag