Can't get @INHERIT to work properly

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mtheuma Reply #1, 17 years, 5 months ago

Hi,

I am trying to use the @INHERIT as the default value of a TV to set categories on documents.

So far I have the following:

1) Ditto call:

[!Ditto? &parents=`52` &depth=`0` &dateSource=`createdon` &dateFormat=`%B, %Y` &orderBy=`createdon DESC` &display=`1` &start=`0` &filter=`isfolder,1,2` &tpl=`Ditto_Latest_Articles_tpl`!]

2) Ditto template:

<a href="[~[+id+]~]"><img src="[+articlethumbnail+]" alt="[+longtitle+]" /></a>
<h3><a href="[~[+id+]~]" title="[+longtitle+]">[+title:character_limit=`39`+]</a></h3>
<p class="artdate">[+articlecategory+] | [+date+]</p>
<p>[+introtext:character_limit=`132`+]</p>
<p><a href="[~[+id+]~]" title="Read [+title+]">Read more</a></p>

The [+articlecategory+] is the TV that I want to use to display the category below the title. However, it does not seem to be inheriting the value of the parent.

I have the following folder structure:

Articles
>>Category
>>>Year
>>>>Article

After setting up the TV with a default value of @INHERIT, I set a value manually on the Category, expecting the Article to inherit it - but it is not working. If I set a fixed default value, it works fine.

Thanks for your help!
Matt

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Eoler Reply #2, 17 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: mtheuma at Jun 02, 2009, 06:19 AM

After setting up the TV with a default value of @INHERIT, I set a value manually on the Category, expecting the Article to inherit it - but it is not working. If I set a fixed default value, it works fine.

Try with @INHERITED ... wink

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mtheuma Reply #3, 17 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for the quick reply.

No luck I’m afraid, maybe I’m doing something very wrong? Using @INHERITED as the default makes the value of the TV "ED" - the end INHERITED I guess.

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Eoler Reply #4, 17 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: mtheuma at Jun 02, 2009, 07:33 AM

No luck I’m afraid, maybe I’m doing something very wrong? Using @INHERITED as the default makes the value of the TV "ED" - the end INHERITED I guess.

Are you using richtext field to enter value @INHERITED ? Is there valid non-inherited value inside any of ancestors?

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mtheuma Reply #5, 17 years, 5 months ago

The input type is set to text and one of the parents has a value set.

If I add [*articlecategory*] within the document it outputs on the page correctly - so it seems to be a problem using it in-conjunction with Ditto or something...

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sottwell Reply #6, 17 years, 5 months ago

I’m not sure if Ditto sets an inherited TV value into a placeholder. What happens if you use the TV tags instead of placeholder tags?

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mtheuma Reply #7, 17 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: sottwell at Jun 02, 2009, 08:50 AM

I’m not sure if Ditto sets an inherited TV value into a placeholder. What happens if you use the TV tags instead of placeholder tags?

It returns the value for the current document, rather than the one being fetched by Ditto...

If I replace [+articlecategory+] with:

[[GetField? &docid=`[+id+]` &field=`articlecategory`]]

It works just fine... so I’ll use that solution for now. Is the problem that Ditto can’t deal with inherited TV values?

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sottwell Reply #8, 17 years, 5 months ago

I’ll have to look at the code, but getting inherited TV values is a complex bit of code, and I’m not sure if Ditto does that or not.

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