Ditto [+summary+] not working

Hey guys, what i’m doing wrong here? summary is not working!

Chunk: story_summary

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And my call..

[!Ditto? &parents=`1`&sortBy=`createdon`&summarize=`5` &total=`5`&tpl=`story_summary`!]

Hi,

to display the summary placeholder in your tpl, you have to use ditto extenders
=>http://ditto.modxcms.com/extenders.html

add to you ditto call &extenders=`summary`

:-)

Quote from: heliotrope at Feb 20, 2009, 04:56 AM

Hi,

to display the summary placeholder in your tpl, you have to use ditto extenders
=>http://ditto.modxcms.com/extenders.html

add to you ditto call &extenders=`summary`

:-)

ahh, sweet! Now its showing.. Thanks!

Updated call:
[!Ditto? &parents=`1`&sortBy=`createdon`&extenders=`summary`&summarize=`5`  &total=`5`&tpl=`story_summary`!]

However in is only showing 1 line of text in my first article, 2 lines in second article and 3 in third article.. wierd

?? am i suppose to replace "&extenders" with something?

This is driving me nuts! Im working on a project to learn modx so i’m still a little clueless...

Sorry if the problem above is obvious.

However in is only showing 1 line of text in my first article, 2 lines in second article and 3 in third article.. wierd

That is weird! Could there be something in the formatting of the content that is being summarized? Check the HTML output for broken image tags something that is ’invading’ the content. I don’t remember if the summary included tags html tags or not.

Its stripped down to plain text, so there shouldn’t be any broken things there.

The Ditto call is written in document content, would it be better to make it part of the template?

Maybe i should try introtext instead of summary, don’t know how to do it though =)

Try putting a space before every & in the Ditto call.

Another thing to try is to explicitly set the truncation point in the Ditto call.

Quote from: BobRay at Feb 21, 2009, 05:47 PM

Try putting a space before every & in the Ditto call.

Another thing to try is to explicitly set the truncation point in the Ditto call.

spaces dosent change anything, if i use "&trunc=`1`" nothing changes but if i use "&trunc=`0`" its shows the entire articles in summary.

Whats dose this call do`? "&summarize=`5`"

Try taking &summarize=`5` out and replacing it with

&total=`5`

AFAIK, Ditto 2.x has no summarize parameter.

Quote from: BobRay at Feb 23, 2009, 03:09 PM

Try taking &summarize=`5` out and replacing it with

&total=`5`

AFAIK, Ditto 2.x has no summarize parameter.

Still nothing (

link to page: http://www.norlins.dk/uchihaproject/

ditto call:

[!Ditto? &parents=`1` &sortBy=`createdon` &extenders=`summary` &total=`5` &tpl=`story_summary`!]

story_summary:

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