Snippet Cache Question

Why does this snippet have to be called uncached in a cached page?

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If the snippet and the page are cached, there’s no output at all on reloading the page. I could swear that this wasn’t the case in earlier releases, but maybe I’m misremembering.
(This is Revo 1.0.6-pl2)

Do all snippets that set placeholders have to be uncached or in an uncached page?

If not, the placeholder only gets set on the first execution.

Quote from: OpenGeek at Jan 11, 2011, 10:40 AM

If not, the placeholder only gets set on the first execution.

Yes, but shouldn’t the rendered value of the placeholder from the first visit to the page get stored in the cached page where the placeholder was?

It does not.

As I said, the page above produces no output at all except for the first visit.

Now I’m confused amongst a few years worth of logic here—placeholders are never cached, and the code that prevents this has been there for quite a while. Removing this code does indeed solve the simple case, but I’m wondering what the consequences are wrt placeholder scope, output filters, etc. I’ll do some testing with this and see what happens...

Quote from: OpenGeek at Jan 11, 2011, 02:31 PM

Now I’m confused amongst a few years worth of logic here—placeholders are never cached, and the code that prevents this has been there for quite a while. Removing this code does indeed solve the simple case, but I’m wondering what the consequences are wrt placeholder scope, output filters, etc. I’ll do some testing with this and see what happens...

I’m confused too. I have an Evo version of the ThermX (fundraising thermometer) snippet that works fine in Evo with both the page and the snippet cached. In Revo -- same code except for the tag syntax -- it only works once, then the page is blank. I’m pretty sure that it worked in Revo when I first converted it, so I think something has changed lately that may break a number of existing pages.

[Update]
This is no help: