How to Use Pagination Correctly

54 Posts

neelhtak_backwards Reply #1, 17 years ago

So I’ve been playing around with ditto for hours now trying to get pagination to work.
I have the following pages:
- story (id 66)
- chapter one (id 70)

Naturally, with a page that displays an entire chapter of a novel, I want to implement pagination. Basically I’m pretty sure I’m using it incorrectly.
This is what I have on id 70...

[!Ditto? &parents=`70` &display=`5` &removeChunk=`Comments` &tpl=`my_blog_comments` &paginate=`1` &extenders=`summary,dateFilter` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &tagData=`documentTags`!]

Showing [+start+] - [+stop+] of [+total+] Articles

[+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+]

INSERT THE TEXT OUT OF CHAPTER HERE

[+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+]

{{comments}}

Am I doing this correctly...?

Visit www.katskinner.com for all your expert novel writing tips, tutorials and more.

54 Posts

neelhtak_backwards Reply #2, 17 years ago

Ok, so I have a temporary solution (looks like its gonna be another one of those things in modx that I can’t do the way I desire... embarrassed

)

On the Chapter one page I have the following code

[!Ditto? &display=`1` &removeChunk=`Comments` &tpl=`novel_template` &paginate=`1`  &extenders=`summary,dateFilter` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &tagData=`documentTags` &sortdir=`DESC`!]

Showing [+start+] - [+stop+] of [+total+] Articles

[+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+]

under chapter one i have the adding "articles", which basically the above ditto is displaying as straight text (with help from my tpl). This way I am forced to split the novel’s pages into seperate articles (whereas I wanted to create one huge article with some splitter call at appropriate points)

The "Articles" I have are called
-part 1
-part 2
- etc...

However, my newest problem is I can’t get the first "pagination page" of chapter one to be part 1 (which was created first)...
How do I get this??

Visit www.katskinner.com for all your expert novel writing tips, tutorials and more.

2,314 Posts

anonymized-26931 Reply #3, 17 years ago

Hi Kathleen,

this might be helpful too...maybe ( Pagination plugin ): http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,40391.msg248687.html

54 Posts

neelhtak_backwards Reply #4, 17 years ago

Sharkbait,
Thanks but I tried that... couldn’t get it to work at the time. I’ll play around with that in the next few days (as I solved the immedate emergency).

My solution

[!Ditto? &display=`1` &removeChunk=`Comments` &tpl=`novel_template` &paginate=`1`  &extenders=`summary,dateFilter` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &tagData=`documentTags` &orderBy=`menuindex ASC`!]

Showing [+start+] - [+stop+] of [+total+] Articles

[+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+]

My bad for not realizing that orderBy and sortBy were case sensitive.

THIS IS NOW SOLVED

I wish everyone else luck with their codes.

Visit www.katskinner.com for all your expert novel writing tips, tutorials and more.