Support/Comments for Quill

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Brief Description:
Quill increases usage of MODx documents.

!QUILL NEEDS RIGHT ENGLISH DOCUMENTATION.
WHO SPEAK ENGLISH WELL — PLEASE HELP TO CREATE IT!

I read the descriptions for this plugin (Quill increases usage of MODx documents. With snippet you can bind documents to TV, show and use controls of TV and more.), but I still don’t think I understand what this is for or how would I use it.

Can you give a scenario or two on how this plugin fits into life in MODx?

It provides an interface to make it easy to bind list TVs with modx documents. This is very handy, I use this sort of binding all of the time. I will install it and give it a try. The indent feature is great. 

Tip: Download the snippet and see the readme, some of the instructions were rendered in the online version so you are not seeing the entire code example.

Urique, this is brilliant. Thank you!

I followed the example and everything worked great. However I get some extra characters before the first option so it displays like this:


It is not in the name of the first option since I can edit the order and the first option will always have the extra encoding.

Quote from: dev_cw at Aug 29, 2008, 06:53 AM

However I get some extra characters before the first option so it displays like this:

USD

It is not in the name of the first option since I can edit the order and the first option will always have the extra encoding.

Thanks for question!
To resolve this trouble, I need to see your:

• MODx language and charachter encoding
• Piece of html-code generated by Quill (options)
• Quill call string from TV (elements string).

Setting the character encoding to utf8 resolved the issue. The site was set to iso-8859-1 when the encoding came through. If I switch it back the code shows up again.

Quote from: dev_cw at Aug 29, 2008, 10:41 AM

Setting the character encoding to utf8 resolved the issue. The site was set to iso-8859-1 when the encoding came through. If I switch it back the code shows up again.

<p><select id="tvprice_currency" name="tvprice_currency" size="1"><option value="72">JPY</option>...

Ok.
Did you use ’control’ or ’list’ mode? If there was ’list’ mode, Quill cannot add that symbols, because it only returns options-string to MODx, and MODx builds a control.

To get the answer:

• Try to paste you Quill calling string to any doc and show me generated HTML
• Show me Quill calling string that you use

This is a great snippet and thanks for sharing your work!

is there a way to control the output name of a tag when used in control mode?
for example, I have a drop down tv called product-size with this

XS||SM||MED||LG||XL||2XL

right now the select name of the list is tvproduct-size however on the form I want the name to be just size .

is this possible with Quill?

No, because Quill use modx API to generate control. This API automatically sets control name by adding "tv" prefix.
In future versions I try to find a way to do this. Now you can just minimize tv-name only, to optimize control name.

P.S. Speak english a little - learning…