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BobRay Reply #1, 16 years, 6 months ago

I see that if the CMP returns HTML, tags in it are not processed. Is this a permanent condition or is there a plan to process tags in that situation?

If you put a link in the HTML, following the link takes you out of the Manager to a full-screen view of the new page. Is there an easy way of having the page content displayed in the right panel or the Manager? I’m thinking of something like a multi-page help system and wondering how it could be implemented as a CMP in the right panel.

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splittingred Reply #2, 16 years, 6 months ago

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 11, 2010, 10:46 PM

I see that if the CMP returns HTML, tags in it are not processed. Is this a permanent condition or is there a plan to process tags in that situation?

Process tags? You mean Snippets,TVs, etc? No, not in CMPs.

If you put a link in the HTML, following the link takes you out of the Manager to a full-screen view of the new page. Is there an easy way of having the page content displayed in the right panel or the Manager? I’m thinking of something like a multi-page help system and wondering how it could be implemented as a CMP in the right panel.

You’ll need to develop your own controller navigation system (a few existing CMPs do this already), preserving the ?a= parameter to tell the mgr what action you’re on. Or, alternatively, you can package more than one action, but this might not be the easiest path.

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BobRay Reply #3, 16 years, 6 months ago

Got it, thanks.

For future reference:

link:

<a href="[[++manager_path]]?a=74&page=2">Page 2 >></a>

Where 74 is the ID of the component’s action (visible in System | Actions).

in index.php:

switch($_GET['page']) { // get page to show from URL
    case '2':
        $output = $modx->getChunk('Page2');
        break;
    default: // default to page 1
       $output = $modx->getChunk('Page1');
}

return $output;

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