Practical use of template properties?

It sounds like a good case for a read-only TV, which AFAIK, is not possible at this point, but I think it would be a useful form customization option.

I believe it *is* possible to have a read-only template with view but not edit permission (or edit but not save).

I think you could also put the paths in chunks and give the users permission to view but not edit the chunks, then use chunk tags in the template. That might make it easier for them to find the paths.

Ok thank you all for the answers. Some ways are laid out, I’ll find the better one.

What about tracking/using $_REQUEST ? I guess I can use a TV for that too, but then again, why have properties for a template? When would those be used?

Template properties are useful if you want to change things used in the Template without editing the Template or (I think -- haven't tested this) if you have snippets in the Template that need information about the template.

Snippets should be able to get the properties with:




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How would I reference the property in the template?

Quote from: MacLonghorn at Jul 24, 2012, 09:47 AM

How would I reference the property in the template?

Template properties, similar to chunk properties, are converted to placeholders before the content is processed.

nice! i guess i could have tried that. Thanks Jason.

For example, consider if you have three similar templates, we'll call them Template-Default, Template-Fixed, and Template-Fluid. I want to reuse Template Variables across these but still be able to vary the structure. I can define a property for all my Templates, let's call it template_alias. For default, I leave this blank. For the fixed and fluid Templates, I give it a value of -fixed and -fluid respectively. Then I can use those in my default Template Variable values; consider a Template Variable called head which I want to vary by Template:

Now I can inherit the proper head Chunk (I have head, head-fixed, and head-fluid) through an entire node in the MODX tree regardless of which Template the children have assigned to them.

Can you put at bindings in the template properties? eg, @EVAL return $_REQUEST['myvar']; Doesn't look like it. I suppose a plugin would be the way to do that best?

Quote from: MacLonghorn at Jul 24, 2012, 01:44 PM

Can you put at bindings in the template properties? eg, @EVAL return $_REQUEST['myvar']; Doesn't look like it. I suppose a plugin would be the way to do that best?

No, @ bindings are exclusively the domain of Template Variables. You can enter any string, including MODX tags, as the value, so a Snippet would be the way to go.