Multiflex-3 MODx Port [Beta - 4]

Here is the port of Multiflex-3. This is classified as a beta release. Right now it is just the manual installation, and I would appreciate any feedback. Once this is considered bugfree, I will package the 2-Col and 1-Col versions along with packaging it for use with Skingraft.

Demo:
http://www.cmssandbox.com/MODx095/index.php?id=1

UPDATE 1/15/07:
There was a bug in the m3_login chunk.

Various updates to the template file that was causing the template to not validate.

Also, the breadcrumbs now match up with the original template with no hacks to the breadcrumbs snippet. Just use the new css files included.

UPDATE 9/20/07:
I made updates to the documentation to update the basic ditto calls and label some stuff as outdated.

UPDATE 11/27/07:
Your ditto calls need to have &extenders=`summary` added to them. Otherwise you need to edit any chunks that ditto may use as templates in accordance with:

http://ditto.modxcms.com/tutorials/upgrading-from-ditto-1-to-2.html

Other Versions Courtesy of AMDbuilder:
Version 3 - 3.10 - http://modxcms.com/MultiFlex-v3-1775.html
Version 4 - 4.00 - http://modxcms.com/MultiFlex-v4-1778.html
Version 5 - 5.03 - http://modxcms.com/Multiflex-5-1844.html

Jesse

Heh, I was half way through hacking up multiflex when I ran across this post. Thanks for keeping me from wasting 50% of my time!

I am confused on a couple of places. (I am a relatively new ModX user.)

1. About 1/3 of the way in, on the "In the template under Navigation Level 1," section, you say to change the value of AS_landing to the ID of the document called "Search Results." Is the ID the Menu Index or the number in parenthesis after the Menu Title?

2. Near the end, you say "In each of these respective pages, place the appropriate chunk name in the m3_tplTV input area." I’ve read this paragraph about 5 times, and I have no idea how to follow along.

1. It’s the number in parentheses after the name.

2. When you edit a document, under the big content editing field you will see similar smaller fields for editing each TV assigned to the template that the document is using. When you create a TV, make sure to check the Access boxes for your templates, at the bottom of the TV editing page.

This is working very smoothly for me, just a slight bump. How do I add another colored box to the right column? I’ve created a duplicate of the login box in the tree and modified it slightly but it isn’t appearing?

Thanks!

If you have the Login Box showing, then you should just have to place another document inside the same container. If you are using the same names as I had in my install instructions, you would place another document inside the "Info Boxes" container.

Make sure to clear your cache too. If that doesn’t fix it, if you want you can PM your manager login in details so I can take a quick look at how everything is setup.

Jesse

I was able to get another box to show up, thanks but how do I get it to be a different color like in the multiflex3 template?

Thanks!

If you hacked the ditto snippet, as described in the instructions, you only need to do a few more things.

Create a TV called m3_tplBox with an input type of "Text" and a default content of m3_su_BlueBorder (or whatever chunk name represents the box color you will use most often). Make sure you check the box that assigns this TV to your site template you are using!

Edit the default content of the TV called "m3_rightContainer" and add this to the Ditto call that should already be in there:



Then create a chunk that will serve as the template for the color you want. In the zip file included in this post, I have created these chunks for you. You have Blue, BlueBorder, Orange, OrangeBorder, Green, GreenBorder, Grey, and GreyBorder. So paste the contents of any or all of those into new chunks.

Then when editing the document that represents the box, you should see a TV with the default content of m3_su_BlueBorder, and you can change this to the chunk name that represents the other color templates, to override the default box template on the individual document basis.

Hope that wasn’t too confusing :-D

Okay, I followed your directions but the box did not change colors. Here’s what I have.

I created a new TV called ’m3_tplBox’ and it’s default value is--


I edited the TV ’m3_rightContainer’ and it now contains--


I then edited my document under "Info Boxes" and in the TV area for ’m3_tplBox’ I changed it to be--
.

I cleared the cache, reload the page and it’s still blue.

What have I done wrong?

Do you have a chunk named m3_su_OrangeBorder with the appropriate html?

Also, did you make the changes to the ditto snippet to allow such template overrides as described in the instructions?

Jesse