getResources &parents and &resources conflict

Are &parents and &resources mutually exclusive?

On the attached tree if I run from resource 8 the following

[[!getResources? &parents=`3` &resources=`4` &tpl=`gallery`]]

it returns resources 4 and 6 and therefore ignores my parameter &resources=`4`

However if I change it to

[[!getResources? &parents=`1` &resources=`4` &tpl=`gallery`]]

it correctly returns just resource 4

Should I report this as a defect or is it a misunderstanding?

Thanks

Mark

I think &parents just shows the children of the named resource. Resource 1 has no children, so none are shown.

It would be nice if getResources had a &showStart parameter that would make it show the parent itself as well.

Actually that’s the opposite of what I was saying?

Starting from &parents=`1` seemed to start it from the root of the site. (which I’m happy about)

My point was that starting from a child e.g. &parents=`3` &resources=`4` seemed to confuse the query.

Sparkyhd - your initial conditions are not exclusive - in pseudo code - ’show children of resource 3 and include resource 4’. As 6 is also a child of resource 3, gR returns it.

When you change it to &parents=1, then you get all the children of resource 1 (ie none), plus the resource you asked to be included regardless.

If you want to specifically disregard 6, then you need to do &resources=`4,-6`.

Or at least that is my understanding. It’s tempting to think of &resources to be a subset of &parents, but it isn’t (again, as far as I can tell through usage).

Ok thanks - I misunderstood it.

I thought &resources=`4` meant LIMIT to 4

rather than

include as well as anything else found under the parent.

Thanks for putting me straight.

Hi Guys,
How to I output just parents?



Thanks

I think u need to use: