getResources usage

How do i use get to display

1 - one resource/document title

2 - display one resource’s intro text/summary

I used this chunk for my news "home" page. This is the chunk that repeats with a "read more" link. You can see how I used the page title and introtext.

Thanks,

How do you specify a resource ID if you want a particular resource to be displayed

Quote from: derelin at Oct 13, 2010, 11:20 PM

Thanks,

How do you specify a resource ID if you want a particular resource to be displayed

Your question wasn’t very clear, but let’s give it a try.

There are many ways to achieve this.

You can use this call:

[[!getResourcesTag? &elementClass=`modSnippet` &element=`getResources` &tpl=`yourtpl` &parents=`id` &limit=`1` &includeContent=`1` &includeTVs=`1` &showHidden=`0` &hideContainers=`0` &cache=`0` &pageVarKey=`page` ]]

Make sure that the document you’d like to retrieve is a container and place no other documents within it.

Notice that I set &hideContainers to =`0`. This is required for the trick to work. I other words, the container document will be displayed.

For more, I recommend reading the Wiki http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources

Hope t helps

Thanks for the response. The example you give requires a container, what if the item i want to display is not a container but a resource on the first level?

What i want to display is something like this;

First part
A list in which i define two specific items to be displayed

Article story1 title
Article story2 title

But instead of fetching it from the container, I want to show the title of that item,

The second part is;
Think of a situation with a site that has these resources and IDs;
Home(1)
About(2)
Contact(3)

I want to show a summary of "About" so that when someone clicks "Read More", they can read teh full details.
That means that i should be able to display the summary of "About" only. How would i implement that? Do i call an ID? and if so, where do i place the ID?

On which page do you wantthe summary displayed?

Quote from: derelin at Oct 14, 2010, 03:08 PM

Thanks for the response. The example you give requires a container, what if the item i want to display is not a container but a resource on the first level?

What i want to display is something like this;

First part
A list in which i define two specific items to be displayed

Article story1 title
Article story2 title

But instead of fetching it from the container, I want to show the title of that item,

The second part is;
Think of a situation with a site that has these resources and IDs;
Home(1)
About(2)
Contact(3)

I want to show a summary of "About" so that when someone clicks "Read More", they can read teh full details.
That means that i should be able to display the summary of "About" only. How would i implement that? Do i call an ID? and if so, where do i place the ID?

To answer the second part of your question you can specify an id in the getResources call and limit it to 1 so add:

[[!getresources? &idx=`2` &limit=`1`]]

and whatever other params you need

Quote from: treigh at Oct 14, 2010, 03:31 PM

On which page do you wantthe summary displayed?

I want to place the tag within a template, so that wherever the template appears, the tag is used to show that specific list or intro.

Also, why does this list get output as part of content

Array
(
[tpl] =>
[tplOdd] =>
[tplFirst] =>
[tplLast] =>
[sortby] => publishedon
[sortbyTV] =>
[sortbyAlias] =>
[sortbyEscaped] => 0
[sortdir] => DESC
[sortdirTV] => DESC
[limit] => 1
[offset] => 0
[tvFilters] =>
[depth] => 10
[parents] => 5
[includeContent] => 1
[includeTVs] =>
[showHidden] =>
[showUnpublished] =>
[showDeleted] =>
[resources] =>
[processTVs] =>
[tvPrefix] => tv.
[idx] => 1
[first] => 1
[last] => 1
[toPlaceholder] =>
[debug] =>
[extenders] => summary
[id] => 6
[type] => document
[contentType] => text/html
[pagetitle] => Terms
[longtitle] =>
[description] =>
[alias] => terms
[link_attributes] =>
[published] => 1
[pub_date] => 0
[unpub_date] => 0
[parent] => 5
[isfolder] =>
[introtext] =>
[content] =>


I used parameters like this

[[!getResources? &parents=`5` &limit=`1` &includeContent=`1` &extenders=`summary`]]

1. You need to specify a &tpl property with the name of your Chunk you’re using.
2. &extenders is not a getResources property.