Repeatable Regions of Template Variables in Revoltuon

Is it possible to assign a set up a repeatable set of template variables on template in Revolution?

Say i’d like to have an artist page that displays a bio and a few pieces of his or her art with a few fields of appropriate info (size, medium, price, sold/available). Opposed to having to create an individual document for each piece it would be awesome to just have one template and be able to simply have a region of repeatable Template Variables which the content editor would have the ability to duplicate and fill out.

Basically something just like this: http://blog.pagelime.com/2009/12/01/repeating-regions-pagelime-feature/

I guess one issue is that the TV tables are expecting specific value, but could not multiple values be logged to one TV value with a custom delimiter or something. Then we would just need a snippet to loop through these values and output them based on a given chunk with the appropriate placeholders ala DItto/getResources.

This must already be possible somehow... anyone?

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That’s a very interesting idea. I’ve thought about such things where the user was entering a lot of "non-content" data, but the amount varying. Sometimes I just make lots of TV’s (SillyField1, SillyField2, etc.) and just styled the template so that empty ones look good. And I’ve also used Ditto/GetResources when real loops are more needed - each document using a special template becomes one loopable record in their Ditto-ized holder document, so to speak.

I was thinking that someone could have a plain text field, somehow train the client to enter words with spaces in between (yeah, right!), and then grab and display all that with a snippet that would parse, template, and display the stuff, but you’ve got a bunch of fields, so that would be way too messy.

I’m not sure, TV’s can certainly get way out of hand, let’s see what others say.

you can try multiItemsGridTv. I think this can do what you want. (works on 2.0.8, not on 2.1, yet)

Bruno: this looks great! totally what I was talking about. will test it out over the weekend.

https://github.com/Bruno17/multiItemsGridTV
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,58511.100.html

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