help with a file listbox TV in Revo

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krisj Reply #1, 15 years, 7 months ago

I am trying to create a Listbox (multi-select) TV that would give me a list of files from a particular directory. not sure how to populate it.

help anyone?

many thanks in advance

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BobRay Reply #2, 15 years, 7 months ago

Try puting this in the input option values field:

@DIRECTORY path/to/directory

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krisj Reply #3, 15 years, 7 months ago

thats terriffic!

I am liking the power of modx, just realizing there is so much under the hood....

thank you for the tip!

and by doing this i just discovered a 2.1rc1 bug with TV output delimiters. posted here: http://bugs.modx.com/issues/4232

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splittingred Reply #4, 15 years, 7 months ago

And it’s been fixed. Good catch, and thanks! https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/commit/1666dc6994cb6511c52e7de5612ceb35b152d3d7

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krisj Reply #5, 15 years, 7 months ago

that was super quick. nice! i like