Support/Comments for getField

You can use Ditto instead. Obviously, it involves a bit more typing...

e.g.

As far as I can find out GetField doesn’t work with modx 0.9.6.x. Hopefully someone can find time and opportunity to fix that. I’m sorry I can’t.

Quote from: Sylvaticus at Mar 04, 2009, 02:44 AM

As far as I can find out GetField doesn’t work with modx 0.9.6.x. Hopefully someone can find time and opportunity to fix that. I’m sorry I can’t.

GetField works just fine with 0.9.6.x here! I have used it many times with 0.9.6.x (x = 1, 2, 3).

OK, great to know, and thanks. Now I know that it’s me doing something wrong and not the snippet.

I´m trying to use this with Ditto.
What I have is a structure like this:

Dittocontainer
|- subcontainer
|- document1
|- document2
|- document3
|- document4
|- subcontainer2
|- document1
|- document2
|- document3
|- document4

My dittocall is in Dittocontainer, and I need the pagetitle from the parent to the documents.
I try to fetch it with this call in my ditto template:

But that call only gives me the parent to Dittocontainer, and I´m guessing it is because the ditto call is made from there.

Is there anyway to get the filed of the child rather then the parent?

Cheers
Amrit

Perhaps [+parent+] would work.

Hi Sottwell.

Naaah. [+parent+] doesn´t yield any results at all... sadly. atleast not with GetField.
If I use it in my template all it generate is the docid, and that I can do without.

The problem seems to be that Ditto on the one hand travels down the document tree, fetches all the documents, and returns the information in the document from where the ditto call is made.
On the other hand when adding the GetField the snippet call fetches all the information from where the snippet call is placed, and returns the info there, which gets the pagetitle from the parent to where I place the call.
Seems like this solution won´t work...

Cheers

This usage seems to be wrong... &parent parameter should have 0 or 1.
But &parent parameter does not work properly, when placed in the Ditto template, I believe.

In this case it should be something like...

I am using GetField to replicate the content of a document within another document as follows:

However, the replicated page does not seem to be handling the embedded Ditto call within document 84. The replicated page reports "No Documents Found" but the original page works fine.

The Ditto call is:

Is there any reason why calling this using GetField would not work?

Thanks,
Matt

EDIT: I changed the Ditto code to: and it all seems to be working fine!