Variable Templates

Good evening guys, help me solve this problem. I know that when creating a VT, it appears in a resource tab, right? However, by inserting any text, it will only appear in that resource. I'd like it to automatically go into all the resources I created. Or that it was global. When I enter, for example, in the home resource, it is not inserted, for example in the resource over us. Have to do all the work of inserting in on us.

When you create a TV (or edit it in on the Elements tab), you can set a default value for the TV. You can also make that value inherited by using this as the default value:

Quote from: BobRay at May 13, 2017, 05:35 AM

When you create a TV (or edit it in on the Elements tab), you can set a default value for the TV. You can also make that value inherited by using this as the default value:

@INHERIT somevalue

Thank you for your attention, as I am new to Modx, I would be grateful if you would exemplify it. For example, I want the content that I insert into the Variable Templates tab of a resource, there was no need to type it again in the tab of another resource.

I think you mean Template Variables rather then Variable Templates (no such thing).

If the default value of the TV is @INHERIT, when you enter a value in the TV, that Value will be inherited by all that resource's children (assuming that they don't already have a value set for the TV).

If you want the value to be available in *all* other resources, not just the Children, you don't want a TV. TV values are intended to be for specific resources.

Instead, you probably want a create a new System Setting. When the System Setting has a value, that value will be available all over the site with a tag like this:



If you need an easy way to set the System Setting, try Mark Hamstra's excellent ClientConfig extra.

Thank you very much for the answers.

I also use settings for site-wide variables.

Create a new namespace and then just start filling it up with any custom data you need to reference.

For multiple languages, you'd have to get a little fancier with lexicons and what not.