Conditional based on TV

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senojeel Reply #1, 6 years, 5 months ago

I have a TV that is called Country and it is a list of countries. I then have a country page that pulls in other resources with the TV Country that matches. I have that working using getPage. I want to conditionally show a button based on if there are any resources that match. So if there are no resources that matches the county, then the button will not show. Am I doing this in a snippet? Is there an example out there that someone could point me to?

Thanks!
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Bruno17 Reply #2, 6 years, 5 months ago

you could use the tplWrapper - property of getResources and put the button into the wrapper-tpl

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senojeel Reply #3, 6 years, 5 months ago

Thanks Bruno.

Sorry again for the double-posting...

So how does the conditional work? The button I want to show is not in the same area as the getResource call. But it is based on whether there are resources or not. From what I am understanding about the tplWrapper, it will wrap the resource with the code in the tpl. That would work for the entire section. Maybe I am not understanding it correctly.

Still getting used to ModX...

Thanks!

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senojeel Reply #4, 6 years, 5 months ago

I am sure there is a more efficient way, but here is what I have done and it is working.

[[!getPage:ifnotempty=`[[$partnersBtn]]`?
				&elementClass=`modSnippet`
				&element=`getResources`
				&parents=`574`
				&limit=`1`
				&pageVarKey=`page`
				&includeTVs=`1`
				&includeContent=`1`
				&showHidden=`1`
				&sortby=`{"publishedon":"DESC"}`
				&tpl=`mis_partner-grid-item-tpl`
				&tvFilters=`country==[[*Country]]`
			]]

What this is doing is looking for resources in a TV category of Country (Mexico, Guatemala, etc.) If there are no resources, it will show my partnersBtn snippet.

I have 2 buttons and 2 headings that need to do this. Is this going to slow my page down with the getResources call?

I am open to suggestions.

Thanks!

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Bruno17 Reply #5, 6 years, 5 months ago

you could do it also this way, setting the result of getPage into a placeholder:

[[!getPage?
                &elementClass=`modSnippet`
                &element=`getResources`
                &parents=`574`
                &limit=`1`
                &pageVarKey=`page`
                &includeTVs=`1`
                &includeContent=`1`
                &showHidden=`1`
                &sortby=`{"publishedon":"DESC"}`
                &tpl=`mis_partner-grid-item-tpl`
                &tvFilters=`country==[[*Country]]`
                &toPlaceholder=`mis_partner-grid`
            ]]

[[!+mis_partner-grid:ifnotempty=`[[$partnersBtn]]`]]

[[!+mis_partner-grid]]

[[!+mis_partner-grid:ifnotempty=`[[$partnersBtn]]`]]

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