Function as expected when used for links

Hey team,

Falling in love with MODx all over again thanks to the great work on Revo!

I’d like to reach out to the team to appeal for a change in how [[*alias]] is used.

The only time I use that TV is in creating links, such as:

<a href="[[*alias]]">[[*pagetitle]]</a>

The problem is that doesn’t append the Content Type at the end. I’ve had to replace it with [[~[[*id]]]]

If alias isn’t meant to be treated as the "friendly URL" for the Resource, what is its purpose?

We talked on IRC for a short while already, but perhaps this can help.


The [[*alias]] resource field only holds the actual alias, and doesn’t render a full link.

A possible use for this (which of course would better be done using the ID, but still...) was using an image on a resource page.




Another use of the alias field I can imagine right now is when you have a resource which contains a snippet to look up, say, store information where a storename or id is passed through the link. Links you make to that store comes in a beautiful /store/1234-wicked-store.html format, which of course renders a 404... unless you’d put a plugin to that cause which sends it forward to a resource with the alias of "store" with 1234 as query parameter.


All in all, just use [[~[[*id]]]].

I find the [[*alias]] really useful for stying individual pages, eg supplying it as a class for banner divs - my web designers don’t understand "templates"