I’ve got a standard Dir structure of products and want to be able to set a TV on a product page so I can share that product with other categories. Using Ditto, I want to display all of the designated products under a specific Parent (Category) with any other documents set to also display in that category. I’m using pagination so 2 Ditto calls on the same page won’t work.
What’s the best way to accomplish this?
By giving each Ditto call an
&id=`cars` you can then use pagination placeholders like [+cars_next+]
in order to have multiple calls with pagination.
http://ditto.modxcms.com/tutorials/pagination.html
Then for the TV you maybe could use some tagging:
http://www.vimeo.com/929777?pg=embed&sec=929777
//The embedded clip on
http://ditto.modxcms.com/screencast/tagging.html is not as clear and nice
Hi mrhaw, I’ll give it a shot and let you know how it works out.
Thanx,
Chuck
HI,
What I’m looking to do is to have all the results together in the single list, not separated. And be able to paginate them at 8 per page. For example, here’s the layout now:
Sofas: product1, Product2, product3
Specialty Products: Product4, Product5, Product6
I want to display Product4 (from Specialty Products) under the Sofa Category as well. I set up a TV for "Additional Categories" that I can select which other categories I want the product to display in.
I have the main Ditto Call which works fine:
[[Ditto? &tpl=`tpl.category` &paginate=`1` &display=`8` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`]]
I tried adding filters to that call, like this so I could display all products set to show in the chosen category:
[[Ditto? &parents=`47` &tpl=`tpl.category` &paginate=`1` &display=`8` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &filter=`ShowInCategory,[*id*],1`]]
Which successfully places only products with the matching parent id to display.
So good, now I tried to put it together, but it doesn’t generate any matches. Logically, I am trying to say, Get a list of ALL products (47 is the id of the "collection", but exclude ones whose parent doesn’t match the current page id (the current category) OR any products that aren’t set to display in this category.
[[Ditto? &parents=`47` &tpl=`tpl.category` &paginate=`1` &display=`8` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &filter=`parent,[*id*],1|ShowInCategory,[*id*],1`]]
All your documents are in the folder 47 ? If not, then you have to set all possible parents in &parents, I think.
I recently worked on a project where all documents culd be tied to each other via tags. Need to use parents=`0` to get all of the documents.
OK, but then, I think, you need also the parameter &depth=`0`
Yes, all the documents are under 47. The stickiness comes into play in that I need to get all the documents for the active folder AND any other documents that have the ShowInCategory TV set to that folder id as well. The concept is similar to tagging I guess.
The other thought I had was to have a listbox that just stated "Show in these categories" and have the listbox default to the parent id. But I couldn’t figure out how to to generate that with an @binding for the default value.
I used the following SQL statement to generate the list: @SELECT pagetitle,id FROM modx_site_content WHERE deleted != 1 AND hidemenu != 1 AND parent = 47 ORDER BY `pagetitle` ASC
...and that works great. But how would a force the dfault to be the parent ID, so the client didn;t need to manually choose the category?
Going this route, would allow me just to filter based on the ShowInCategory TV, and I;d be set.
Chuck
OK, going back to my original idea of a listbox, I have a TV that gets all the categories from the "Collection" section on the site. Now what I need to do is set the default of that listbox TV to each document’s parent. Thus allowing me to make multiple selections for categories to display in.
What would I need to put in the default text area? The research I have done seems to suggest an @EVAL statement like this: @EVAL return $_GET[’parent’];
but it is not working.
Any thoughts?
