Creating a sidebar TV entry system?

I seem to be swimming upstream and drowning with my current task...

I have a site for a business (restaurant) with several locations. Each location has a different location, phone number, hours of operation, etc. I want to build a sidebar system that will have all these fields created with some kind of TV. Once I turn the site over to the owner I want him to be able to enter all this information in pre formatted boxes.

So if edits the LocationOne page there will be a TV box within the sidebar that looks like something like this:

Hours

Lunch
Monday-Friday:
Saturday-Sunday:

Dinner
Monday-Friday:
Saturday-Sunday:

Phone Number:

Address:

Map:

He could then enter the relevant info into each box and the page would create the info (that is styled with a CSS stylesheet.) The fields should not be changed, just the area where he enters the hours, address, etc...

So, I am guessing this would be some kind if TV within my main page template. I have been messing around with TV’s (sort of new to me) and I am not getting how to create these fields?

Any suggestions here?

Thanks

Template variables are one of the many powerful tools that MODx offers.

They allow you to create input "fields" of many types where your user admin can
just fill in the fields to create a new incarnation of a page. They are also powerful
to have pieces of content that you can move around in your templates to give your site
a very diverse look.

Please read http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/MODx096/Template+Variables to
start understanding their power and flexibility and ask away if you have any questions on
the way...

I read that. I wish there were more examples to illustrate all the choices.

I think I can add picking separate chunks into my TV. At least the individual chunks can then be edited using TinyMCE. Not quite the system I wanted (not as smooth) for the site owner, but it might have to do.

I hear you. I think all of us want more examples of the use of TVs, but
they are so flexible that you will be amazed of what people do with them...
having said that I would do the following for your issue.



For each field you create a TV, and set the type. Then you create a chunk that you can name {{locationInfo}} and set all the text and the TVs in a html table. You could have another TV
named {{sidebar}} and place it in your document template.

Then your client just has to open the location info document and fill in the TV fields, they look
like a normal form and voila... you can have a bunch of documents for different locations. Hope this helps.

PD I assumed that for the map you use a numeric code to embed the map, it could be textarea if
the embedded code was more complex.
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