[solved] dynamically including product chunks where one or more "pdf" tv's exist

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nickf08 Reply #11, 16 years ago

Hello Ottogal!

Wow, I kind of get what you mean - and I think you’re right, we need the opposite of (A,.pdf,8|B,.pdf,8|C,.pdf,8) - (which I would have thought before your explanation was (A,.pdf,7|B,.pdf,7|C,.pdf,7) - as that returns everything but the docs I need.

The old double negative!

This is tricky.

Mmmm.

ps - thanks for the pickup of &seeThruUnpub=`1`

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microcipcip Reply #12, 16 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_disjunction Doesn’t work like this?

Yesterday I tried this:

&filter=`tvpdf1,.pdf,7|tvpdf2,.pdf,7|tvpdf3,.pdf,7`

But it isn’t working. Why?

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nickf08 Reply #13, 16 years ago

Hi microcipcip, your guess is as good as mine.

As a non programmer, that’s how I would have thought it would work. Well, it seems logical to me to do it that way but unfortunately it produces only one result (the one page that has all 3 pdf files).

Wow, this is a tough one.

Does anybody else have any ideas to make it work dynamically?

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ottogal Reply #14, 16 years ago

Another idea:
Instead of using three TVs

[+product-download-catalogue+] (id=11)
[+product-download-install-manual+] (id=12)
[+product-download-technical+] (id=13)

create a single one [tt]pdf_TV[/tt] of Input Type [tt]checkbox[/tt] and the contents of your three TVs above (that is, the links to the pdf files) as [tt]Input Option Values[/tt] .
Let empty the [tt]Default Value[/tt] .
For [tt]Widget[/tt] select [tt]Delimited List[/tt] .
Then in your Ditto call take this [tt]&filter[/tt] parameter: [tt]&filter=`pdf_TV,.pdf,7`[/tt]
So only if none of the options of the list of pdfs is checked the [tt]pdf_TV[/tt] will not contain the string [tt].pdf[/tt] and consequently will be filtered out.
(I didn’t try this, just a "thought experiment"...)

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nickf08 Reply #15, 16 years ago

Thanks Ottogal - good thinking!
Will give that a crack shortly.

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nickf08 Reply #16, 16 years ago

Hi Ottogal,

I am getting confused - I tried what you suggested but haven’t got it working.

Perhaps if the checkbox had a file upload capability upon checking the relevant box...

If every product has the capability to have different pdfs, would the TV input options values need to be?
Catalogue==[+product-download-catalogue+]||
Installation Manual==[+product-download-install-manual+]||
Technical Data==[+product-download-technical+]

At this late hour nothing is making sense anymore!

Thanks again for your help.

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ottogal Reply #17, 16 years ago

Catalogue==[+product-download-catalogue+]||...

Here instead of the TV [tt][+product-download-catalogue+][/tt] you should insert the value you used for this TV. The Variable [tt][+product-download-catalogue+][/tt] itself is not used anymore.
To be sure: Please show us the definition of [tt][+product-download-catalogue+][/tt] and also one of your chunks like [tt]{{products-brand1-product2}}[/tt] (containing a pdf).

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nickf08 Reply #18, 16 years ago

Hi Ottogal,

I am thinking manuel manual might be a lot easier - this is a little above my pay scale (= understanding)!

Please show us the definition of [+product-download-catalogue+]

I have attached a screen cap - that was a file input style TV [+product-download-catalogue+]

The chunks themselves are different wayfinder calls for different products - the pdf’s for individual products are inserted by referencing the current TV’s with phx.

Example chunk contents:

[[Wayfinder? &startId=`170` &level=`2` &ignoreHidden=`true` &displayStart=`true` &startItemTpl=`prod-table_start` &outerTpl=`prod-table_wrapper_4col` &rowTpl=`prod-table-4col-row`]]

wayfinder row template:

  <tr>
   <td class="col41">[+wf.title+]</td>
   <td class="col42">[+wf.description+]</td>
   <td class="col43"> <a href="[+product-image+]" rel="lightbox" title="[+wf.title+] : [+wf.description+]"><img src="[+product-image+]" id="[+wf.docid+]" /></a> </td>
   <td class="col44"> [+phx:if=`[+product-download-catalogue+]`:isnot=``:then=`<a href="[+product-download-catalogue+]" title="Catalogue for [+wf.title+]" target="blank"><img src="/equity/images/mix/pdf-icon.png" /></a>`+] [+phx:if=`[+product-download-install-manual+]`:isnot=``:then=`<a href="[+product-download-install-manual+]" title="Installation Manual for [+wf.title+]" target="blank"><img src="/equity/images/mix/pdf-icon-Y.png" /></a>`+] [+phx:if=`[+product-download-technical+]`:isnot=``:then=`<a href="[+product-download-technical+]" title="Technical Data for [+wf.title+]" target="blank"><img src="/equity/images/mix/pdf-icon-B.png" /></a>`+] </td>
  </tr>

What do you reckon, is this in the too hard basket?

Have a great weekend.

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ottogal Reply #19, 16 years ago

Have you tried the Tagging extender? (I did not, but it came into my mind.)
http://ditto.modxcms.com/files/assets/snippets/ditto/extenders/tagging-extender-inc-php.html

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nickf08 Reply #20, 16 years ago

I hadn’t (I have never heard of it before now) - I reckon this is beyond my limited expertise so have posted in the commercial bounty section if you or anyone reading this are interested:

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,55523.msg319464.html#msg319464

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