Setting up a news program

Hi,

I believe you have to create the radio-button TV by yourself.

cheers/k

Quote from: Bones_6 at Sep 13, 2009, 11:47 AM

Also, how do I add the multiple tags? Is that something I do within Ditto, or do I do that with pkBlog?

I think the answer is here:

Quote from: kp52 at Sep 12, 2009, 05:46 PM

Your tags for the pages would be in a radio-button template variable, e.g. called techTags, with values for the options of Gen==general||Mob==mobile||Comp==computer. Your tag is referenced in the snippet call with &tags=`techTags`.

1. Create a TV whose type is radio-button.
2. Give it a name, e.g. techTags.
3. In the input option values enter, for instance: Gen==general||Mob==mobile||Comp==computer

cheers/k

ahhh thanks, i’m trying to not get confused by all this, haha

I added this line of code to the ditto code in my General page, under Technology:

And I get this error:

I know the File exists, i’ve checked it several times, not to mention typed it several ways into there

Looks like a few errors in the call (note the differences), try this and see if it helps:

[!Ditto? &config=`blog` &parents=`9` &tpl=`tech.tpl` &tagData=`techTags` &tags=`general`!]

Thanks, that did fix it, no more with the error, now just no documents found

Quote from: Bones_6 at Sep 13, 2009, 03:24 PM

Thanks, that did fix it, no more with the error, now just no documents found

Does the document with id=9 have any child documents?

cheers/k

(Sorry, the website ran into a error with php and mysql.. Just fixed it, in the process of fixing the front page)

id=9 is a document only, and is a child of id=6, which is a container.
The way I have it set up is:
Home=1; It’s a document (ANd I want Just News to go there, site wide news)
About=20; Just a Document page with random text on it atm
Forum=21; it’s a weblink
Technology=6; Is a container, has 9,14,15 (General,Mobile,Computers) which are documents
Games=19; Is a container, which will have something similar to Technology and Sports (Documents)
Movies=13; Is a container, and will contain children similiar to Technology and Sports (Will be document pages)
Sports=8; Is a container, with 10,11,12 (Baseball,Basketball,Football) which are documents
Comic=16; Document Page

And if your trying to get to the site, it’s currently setup at http://reviewdistrict.net/modx
as I said, site ran into a problem, and I jsut fixed it, so moving files back to root.

OK,

You get no results because the General page is not a container, i.e. not a parent.

So with the above Ditto call, your intention was to show only the General page stuff under technology? If that is the case, the &parents value should be 6. This is because and &parents will list the child documents of what you declare as the value of &parents. However, if you do that, Mobile and Computers will also be listed. Btw, you could have multiple values for &parents to list children from different parent docs....but I digress. If you specifically want only the General page to be shown then in your Ditto call use &documents instead of &parents...so,



It all depends on how you want to set this up. Maybe General will also have children and it is those children you will want displayed? In that case use &parents=`9`

cheers/k

So then, with that, for when you click on Technology, the code for ditto would be:

Since it’s a container, and parent, but the other ones, with General as the example, would have:


Also, I get this error when I click on Computers:

And it only happens when I add the Ditto code