Thank you guys!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you for all of you who have made an attempt to help!
After a lot of wasted time, I finally have been able to succeed. No, not with GetResources - which I believe is worthless - but with Ditto.
1) Because Ditto is slighly better than GetResources.
2) Unfortunately, Ditto is pretty close to the level of GetResouces.
3) Unfortunately, IMHO, Ditto’s documentation is just as crappy as that of GetResources. This means we GR users need all the luck we can get. Because we need all the luck! Because, IMHO, the GR documentation is so cryptic, so terse, so useless, so misleading that it falls short of providing any real help!
4) Unfortunately, this message board has also been little or no help to me -- however, perhaps I can use this board once in a while to vent my many-many frustrations as to (MODx + Extras)!
5) Unfortunately, with free software like MODx/GR/Ditto, we need all the luck we can get!
6) My luck manifested itself after my many-many Google searches. It manifested itself in the form of an unrelated web page by an unrelated 3rd party that described one useful trick as to how to use Ditto. Had it been not for that one page, I would’ve thrown away both Ditto and GR!
7) Now that I’ve been able to use Ditto for a few days, I can fully agree with the previous poster, CBorah. Guys, I can tell you Ditto is amazing because I’ve been able to do some amazing things with the (Ditto + MODx) combination that I wouldn’t have been able to do otherwise! Thanks to the crappy/lousy/inferior documentation of both Ditto and GR! I cannot emphasize it strongly enough in this short post that there are MANY-MANY things in GR/Ditto documentation that are lacking and could be better!
8 ) To claim the documentation is pretty good just because we don’t have to pay for it is a good one, a laughable one, too -- because we don’t have unlimited time! We really-really don’t have unlimited time! IMHO, what’s the point in trying to save $19.95 (to pay for GR) when we end up wasting 999 hours of our time, per person? Is our collective time completely worthless? Is your time worth only ($19.95/999 =) 2 cents per hour?
9) And when you can’t figure something out, you search on the forums and can usually find an answer or someone answers your question? Good for you! This has not been my experience! My experience has been totally different!
10) I strongly believe Google searches are far better! For example, I figured out one of the Ditto calls by doing a Google search, and then viewing a 3rd party web page! And that was due to Google! The 3rd party’s setup was a little different, but once it clicked in my head, from that moment it became a pretty amazing tool for me, too!
11) However, why this incredible carelessness as to the GR/Ditto/Extras/MODx "documentation"? Why put out CRAPPY/USELESS/INFERIOR documentation in the first place -- documentation that wastes everyone’s time? I don’t get it! Why waste everyone’s time?
12) I believe the problem is NOT bad people. The problem is incredibly POOR communication skills, especially poor tech WRITER skills. Therefore we, and up to 10,000,000 prospective users suffer, and collectively we waste (10,000,000 times 999 hours =) 9,990,000,000 manhours!
Is that what we REALLY-REALLY want?
