NewsListing using TV with MODx 3.2

I’d like to modify NewsListing using template variables in order to show in a news listing a small preview image and separate RichText description (I don’t like not smart truncate function).

May be there is the more simple way to show a RichText summary in the new MODx 3.2?

Hope to find answer with your help, people

You most certainly can

Add your rich text to the Summary field when creating your news documents

Quote from: xwisdom at Aug 31, 2005, 02:31 PM

Add your rich text to the Summary field when creating your news documents

There is just Plain Text summary window when creating new document in MODx 3.2. So, how can I make it Rich Text in order to place image and text? 

I’ve found that NewsListing snippet has changed in MODx 3.2:

Modified by Raymond Irving on 19-April-2005 to use introtext field

What is this introtext field and how to make it appear when creating new documents? Does this field support Rich Text input? I suppose the new TV "introtext" should be created, but I don’t know exactly how.

Please, help :’(

Have you had a chance to ook at the Word Doc for the snippet which was also updated. It does a good job of explaining exactly what you’re trying to accomplish.

Quote from: bugaev at Sep 01, 2005, 10:55 AM

Quote from: xwisdom at Aug 31, 2005, 02:31 PM

Add your rich text to the Summary field when creating your news documents

There is just Plain Text summary window when creating new document in MODx 3.2. So, how can I make it Rich Text in order to place image and text? 

Ok the Summary text box is really where you can paste your html code but I now understand that you want rich text input.

The are many ways you can approve this but here’s two that came to mind:
A) You could create TV and then Modify the NewsListing snippet (give it a new name) to use that TV
B) Create plugin to convert the Summary textbox into a RichText editor.

I prefer B since it’s very very easy to do. Here’s how it can be done:

1) Create called RichText News Summary
2) Add the following code inside the code area of the plugin:

3) Attach the plugin to the OnDocFormRender event
4) Save the plugin

That’s it you’re done!

Note: The FCKEditor does not auto size the RichText box to match the width and height of the original texbox. This means that the RichText Summary will have a height of 400px by default but you can however and code to the plugin to rectify this problem. Use the $modx->event->output() function to output text to the browser.

Disclaimer: The above provides an easy way to "hack" into the system without touching core code. Future versions of the manager might break this hack.

Raymond, BIG thank you! I see God gives you enough wisdom 

Quote from: xwisdom at Sep 01, 2005, 03:58 PM

Disclaimer: The above provides an easy way to "hack" into the system without touching core code. Future versions of the manager might break this hack.

The B variant is elegant and smart. I think it must work in feature versions!

Thank you again!
I  MODx.

P.S. I’m going to finish russian language pack today. Hope it will be usefull.

Hi bugaev,

Many thanks for the kind words

We’ll try to maintain such features in future versions

How would I go about doing this:

The FCKEditor does not auto size the RichText box to match the width and height of the original texbox. This means that the RichText Summary will have a height of 400px by default but you can however and code to the plugin to rectify this problem. Use the $modx->event->output() function to output text to the browser.

Also, is there any way to alter the toolbar layout (say use a custom toolbar) only for the summary?

I’ll take a look at it but remember that this is only for the FCKEditor. If you’re using other editor it adjust those.

Only using FCK editor.