I think it’d be a very useful feature to be able to create a different type of chunk with a custom editing interface depending on the content input requirement.
Currently with chunks you are confined to a text editor for friendly rich-text / image editing.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have the same flexibility with chunks that template variables add to template views? So for example you could build a custom chunk that had image and file upload widgets, text field, etc.
And maybe in your code you’d call the chunk like this: {{chunkname? &tpl=`custom-chunk-format`}}
It’s such a fantastic idea I’m sure it’s already in the pipeline ;-
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That would be interesting indeed, and I somehow think this could be pulled off with a plugin in Revo fairly easily.
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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What comes to my mind on this proposal is a kind of "mini-template", i.e. it is inserted somewhere in the content field like a chunk, but is also a template in that there are template variables associated with it. Is it this thing we are talking about?
