Revo: Is this possible? Global TV

Quote from: BobRay at May 18, 2011, 12:43 AM

Quote from: benmarte at May 17, 2011, 10:22 PM

What I do is I use getResourceField and create a settings page for each site I am hosting and on this page I have a custom form field where I input the id of the settings page for the specific site along with all of the values pertaining to the site, contact info, address, phones numbers etc.

Then I just pull those values throughout my templates it works like a charm.

Can you clarify that a little? Are they TVs on the settings page, or are they System Settings? And how do you "pull them in"?

Bob they’re template variables that I have on the settings page and then I access them via getResourceField throughout the site. So technically the settings page acts as the global variable for each site since it contains all of the data pertaining to that site.

It works great, haven’t had any issue so far.

I have been creating a Configuration context. It contains a single document called Settings. I use getResources from the web context to retrieve any TV from the Configuration context.

Hey,

It would be great to have TVs available on the web resource and then they could act as global content across all templates and resources.

Creating a resource for footer content works as well but it seems like overkill to create a entire document just for a footer.

TVs on the web resource would allow for non-HTML users to update global content in one spot.

Cheers

Is there some reason you don't want to use System Settings? That's what they're for and they would be *way* faster.


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What you are looking for is called a context setting and they are one of the best things ever they come in real handy for multi-context sites and regular ones as well.

@benmarte -- Yes, but you'd want to use System Settings instead if you wanted the settings to be available everywhere on the site.

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@BobRay- so would you use system settings for things like footer content rather than a resources?

No, I would never put content in a System Setting. I would put that in a chunk if I wanted to use it in multiple templates.

Think of System Settings as small bits of information for use by MODX processes around the site. They're very similar in function to properties (like the ones you put in a snippet tag) except that properties are local in scope (IOW, they can only be seen by the element they are attached to), wheras system settings can be seen from anywhere on the site.

If you browse through the MODX System Setting grid in Revolution, you should get a pretty good idea how they are used. The vast majority are one of the following:

- Boolean Yes/No switches (use Friendly URLs or not)
- Integers (how many minutes to block a use who screws up logging in)
- Paths (where is the rich text editor directory)
- Short text strings (what's the name of the rich text editor, what's the SMTP password)

Notice that these all answer some question a process might need to know the answer to.


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Ok, I have created some custom System Settings.
How do I make them easily accessible for an editor to view and update?

Can I list them on a Custom Manager Page or Resource?

I think ClientConfig is, what you are looking for
http://modx.com/extras/package/clientconfig