How To Call and output the name/title of a Parent? [Resolved]

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MarkG Reply #1, 8 years, 8 months ago

Hi I'm trying to output the folder parent name of a document as a piece of meta data..

IE

<meta itemprop="articleSection" content="[[!getResourceField? &id=`[[*parent]] &field=`pagetitle`]]">

With no luck.

I tried with just [[*parent]] but that just returns the id number.

Any ideas?

Thanks

This question has been answered by lkfranklin. See the first response.

[ed. note: markg last edited this post 8 years, 8 months ago.]

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LK Reply #2, 8 years, 8 months ago

Bobray has a great post on this here:

https://bobsguides.com/blog.html/2014/01/17/getting-a-parents-pagetitle/

Instead of pagetitle you could use it to get additional fields instead such as alias.

$output = $parentObj->get('alias');

To get all fields that you can then use as a placeholder simply call into an array

<?php 
$output = '';
$tpl = $modx->getOption('tpl', $scriptProperties, 'ParentInfoTpl', true);
$parent = $modx->getObject('modResource', array('id' => $modx->resource->get('parent')));
if ($parent) {
    $fields = $parent->toArray();
    $output = $modx->getChunk($tpl, $fields);
}
return $output;

And then call your snippet and specify a tpl chunk

[[!ParentInfo? &tpl=`ParentInfoTpl`]]

[ed. note: lkfranklin last edited this post 8 years, 8 months ago.]

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MarkG Reply #3, 8 years, 8 months ago

LK,

I just used Bob's snippet exactly as is and it worked perfectly.

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