Probably can be solved with a placeholder?

I have a TV, single select listbox that uses short names for ease in the coding, and to avoid spaces... What I would like is to associate that TV and the short-name with the proper non-shorthand name so I can display the proper name in the Ditto results, how is this done?

example...

Selecting IC results in the display of Integrated Circuit.

Thanks!

Hey fruitwerks,
not sure if I’m on the right track, but you mean setting the TV values like this?

IC==Integrated Circuit ||LOL==Laugh out loud ||MODX==CMS and PHP Application Framework ||

so selecting IC from the dropdown would give the TV a value of Integrated Circuit?

Taff

Well.. I guess? Is that all I need, just a ==?

Thanks

ok I don’t see what the point of that is... I need short-names for scripting and proper names for display. I didn’t think it was that easy, because I have asked about something similar before.

This is not to complicated, all you need to do is setup a data source with the shortname = longname information and a snippet to look for the shortname and return the long name. The data source can be a database or a file or an array.

How many names are there? If it is a large number I would use the data base. You can also populate the pulldown TV with the data from the database table.

Currently there are about 7 items, and probably will not exceed 10, possibly 1 per year after that...

When the user edits a document he/she will see a list showing Red, Green and Blue
but when the data is save the values #FF0000, #00FF00 or #0000FF will be the
actual value saved to the database.

The user / client understands the shorthand names no prob, but the public does not, and it is the shorthand names that are displaying in the documents and it is the shorthand names I need to use while working the filters for Ditto. Am I crazy, or is this something else entirely?

Here is an example of a simple snippet based on a n array of data:


This sort of setup is commonly used for error messages or language files.

That is acceptable, but how do I call this? It is only on returned data from Ditto that I need this silent conversion, placing this globally would mess stuff up

Thanks

Quote from: fruitwerks at Jun 08, 2008, 10:01 AM

That is acceptable, but how do I call this? It is only on returned data from Ditto that I need this silent conversion, placing this globally would mess stuff up

Thanks

Add it to the Ditto Tpl where you want the output to show:

[!ExtName? &v=`[+TV_with_short_name+]`!]