How to create document-containers as boxes on the first page

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Keksi Reply #1, 15 years, 7 months ago

Hi,

I dont know how to explain this is a good way, so I have created a image to explain.

I want to mage the front page as a container, and put elements on the front page as new documents inside the front page document..
Is this possible? Cant figure out how..

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Scott Wespi Reply #2, 15 years, 7 months ago

That isn’t too hard to accomplish. You can do it using getResourceField if you don’t plan on changing the documents, or getResources if you do.

For getResources, try something like this in your home page template:

<div class="header">...</div>
<div class="slider">...</div>
<div class="top-area">
	[[getResources?
		&parents=`middle-container-id`
		&tpl=`home-page-document`
		&depth=`0`
		&limit=`0`
		&includeContent=`1`
		&sortby=`menuindex`
		&sortdir=`menuindex`
	]]
</div>
<div class="bottom-area">
	[[getResources?
		&parents=`bottom-container-id`
		&tpl=`home-page-document`
		&depth=`0`
		&limit=`0`
		&includeContent=`1`
		&sortby=`menuindex`
		&sortdir=`menuindex`
	]]
</div>

Make sure you replace "bottom-container-id" and "middle-container-id" with the respective document ids. Then for your "home-page-document" chunk, you just do something like this:

<div class="home-page-document-wrapper">[[+content]]</div>

Obviously that wrapper div is optional, but that should get you started.

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Keksi Reply #3, 15 years, 7 months ago

Thanks for the help.
But when i use the code under, it dont works. I have installet getResourceField and getResource.

		[[getResources?
			&parents=`1`
			&tpl=`home-page-document`
			&depth=`0`
			&limit=`0`
			&includeContent=`1`
			&sortby=`menuindex`
			&sortdir=`menuindex`
		]]

		[[getResources?
			&parents=`1`
			&tpl=`1`
			&depth=`0`
			&limit=`0`
			&includeContent=`1`
			&sortby=`menuindex`
			&sortdir=`menuindex`
		]]

The Frontpage have ID 1

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Scott Wespi Reply #4, 15 years, 7 months ago

On your diagram you had the front page, then under that a "middle container" and a "bottom container". You want to use the IDs of those two documents, not the ID of the front page.

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Scott Wespi Reply #5, 15 years, 7 months ago

Oh and you may want to change your "sortdir" argument in getResources to "asc", not "menuindex" - typo, sorry!

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