set parent resource based on template

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BobRay Reply #11, 15 years, 6 months ago

Quote from: lukemcd at Apr 20, 2011, 09:55 PM

I found the OnResourceTVFormPrerender system event which fires both when you open a resource (or select New Resource) and when you change the template of a resource. Ideally this would be where the code would check the selected template and update the parent id accordingly. But it doesn’t look like the Parent Resource field re-renders on this event.

I don’t think that event fires until the user clicks on the TV tab (too late for your purposes), though I could be wrong. You might be able to alter the Parent Resource field with JS at that point, but I’m not sure how you would do that.
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lukemcd Reply #12, 15 years, 6 months ago
There is nothing in $_REQUEST[’template’] when used with OnDocFormPrerender. These are the keys that were output under $_REQUEST when I created a new document:
```
a
__utma
__utmz
tinymcePasteText
ys-modx-element-tree
PHPSESSID
ys-modx-leftbar-state
ys-modx-resource-tree
ys-modx-file-tree
ys-ext-gen52
ys-ext-gen334
ys-ext-gen395
ys-ext-gen409
ys-ext-gen324
ys-ext-gen327
ys-access-tabpanel
ys-modx-tree-usergroup
wooMeta
wooTracker
```
In my tests OnResourceTVFormPrerender fires even without switching over to the template variables tab.

Thanks for your help, I may look at using Javascript.