Template Variable Input Type: Resource List

I don’t know MODx very well.

I’d like to use a TV to show a drop down list of all pages/resources that are children of a specific resource.

I read the documentation and it seems very easy:
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Template+Variable+Input+Types#TemplateVariableInputTypes-ResourceList

But exactly where must I put the parent’s resource ID ?

I really don’t understand...

Thank you.

Hi,
This sounds like a nifty thing, but indeed, is documented in programmer-speak.
I feel your pain, I can’t get it to work either. And that’s after using MODx for years. I tried sticking a number of a document in Default Value of the TV. That just got it to display the child of some other document, and displayed the same one no matter which document I looked at.

Then I tried "@RESOURCE [document number]" as the default value, same thing there. So I’m stuck, too. One question would be, what is "definition", I suppose.

Cheers, Dave

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Yes. If I insert this code:



as Input Option Value (changing the parent’s id in according to my needs), it works as I expected.
(but I had to change the Input Type to Drop Down List Menu)

The point is that the documentation says:

Supply the definition with a resource ID, and you’ll end up with a drop down list of all pages/resources that are children of that resource.

So this leads me to think that there must be a field where I can simply write the id I want. Isn’t it?

Thank you.

I think that’s the same. resource list input type is just a shortcut.

And you’ll end-up with a DropDownMenu input TV type listing all the children of parent number 6, Same result as using the @Select binding.

The question is what you’re trying to achieve?

Quote from: gOmp at Jan 23, 2011, 03:01 AM

I think that’s the same. resource list input type is just a shortcut.

Input Type:             resourcelist
Input Option Values:    6
Default Value:
Output Type:            default

And you’ll end-up with a DropDownMenu input TV type listing all the children of parent number 6, Same result as using the @Select binding.

The question is what you’re trying to achieve?

I’d like to have a drop down list of resources that are children of the given resource.

Simply I didn’t know where to put the parent resource ID. Now I know. Thank you very much!

The million dollar question: how to get children indented in that list. I believe Quill for MODx Evo did this, so I’m thinking a custom snippet is probably needed. Too bad Input Type: Resource List doesn’t do this.

@ ecmedia Did You found a solution for listing children from current resource with TV resource list?