Different TPLs for different ID's

I’m setting up a blog powered by ModX CMS. The blog is divided into three containers: Music, Movies & Artworks. The homepage will display 10 of the latest published blog entries. I wanted to assign different TPLs for each of the three containers so they have their own styling. This is within a single getResources call.

Is it possible?

you can use the if-snippet or output-filter to switch the tpls for example depending on parents or give your chunks a name with the parent-id as suffix

in your tpl-chunk for example:



and use chunknames for different parents like: myTpl_3, myTpl_5, myTpl_10

Thanks for the hint, Bruno17. I tried this but I’m still confused with how the it will be configured.

I tried to set it up but stumbled on something. Here’s the structure of the website:

Homepage
- Music
- Musicians
- Article 1
- Article 2

- Movies
- Article 1
- Article 2

- Artworks
- Article 1
- Article 2

Using UltimateParent & If, I created the following chunk with the name iftemplate:



latestart is the first TPL chunk, the alternative TPL chunk is latestart2.

Then I call them on the homepage template with:



The conditional statement works but when the getResources statement is called on the homepage, the template sticks to using latestart2 as the TPL chunk. I’m pretty sure I skip some more processing. Or I might have been deluded and approached the problem on the wrong side.

first I would try it without if-snippet, this way: