GoodNewsContentCollection - add Template Variables in Newsletters

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flanger Reply #1, 8 years, 11 months ago

Hi!
I recently discovered GoodNewsContentCollection for the phantastic Newslettersystem GoodNews for modx.

This is a really great feature to create newsletters fast and easy but unfortunately i'm not able to add TVs to this contentcollection. I tried all different variations like:
[[*tepmplatevar]] [[+tv.templatevar]] [[+templatevar]]

even added: &processTVs=`1` and includeTVs=`1` to the call (because somewhere it's mentioned that this snippet is similar to the getressources snippet - but without any luck. Does anyone know if it's possible to add template Variables to this? Would be so phantastic!!

Thanks!
Sven

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gadgetto Reply #2, 8 years, 11 months ago

Hi Sven,

the contentCollection snippet currently doesn't support TVs. But it's already on my list!

Here is a list of supported params:
http://www.bitego.com/extras/goodnews/goodnews-implementation/contentcollection-snippet.html

In the meantime you could additionally use the getResourceField add-on to fetch TV values:
https://docs.modx.com/extras/revo/getresourcefield

Code sample for a contentCollection row template with getResourceField

<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="collectionrow" bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <tr class="collectiontitle">
        <td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-color: #ffffff; padding-bottom: 5px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333;">
            <a href="[[+url]]" style="color: #9ec41a;"><span style="color: #9ec41a;">[[+pagetitle]]</span></a>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="collectionbody">
        <td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333;">
            [[+content:notags:ellipsis=`200`:default=`[[+introtext:ellipsis=`200`]]`]]
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr class="collection footer">
        <td bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333;">
            [[getResourceField? &id=`[[+id]]` &field=`myTV` &processTV=`1`]]
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
<br>

(didn't test this code but should work!)
(and BTW, in case anyone wonders about the HTML code quality: this is a template for an email newsletter)

Hope this helps!

Greetings,
Martin [ed. note: gadgetto last edited this post 8 years, 11 months ago.]

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flanger Reply #3, 8 years, 11 months ago

Hey Martin!
Great solution! Works just fine! Now Newsletter creation with modx is becoming a breeze! Really cool!!!

Even more complex -but still automatically created - Layouts are possible. We can just use 2 (or more) collections and assign different template Variables. I'm thrilled!

Thanks a lot! [ed. note: flanger last edited this post 8 years, 11 months ago.]

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