To Ditto or not to Ditto? (Referencing another document's variables)

Let’s say I have a defined document, doc_id 999 titled: My Document’s Title.

In an earlier document, doc_id 100, I want to link to doc_id 999, using its title for both title attribute as well as the hyperlink text.

Is there anyway to dynamically pull the title (amongst other TVs) from a given doc_id?

Example:



Can this be done using Ditto? Does this functionality require Ditto, or is there a method native to MODx that can assist with this seemingly easy task?

You should use the getDoc (or was it getField?) snippet.

Ah, gracias! It appears the getdoc idea was yours ? ...and the offspring-variant was getField, which introduced hierarchy. I like the simplicity to your approach, and this will be perfect. Maybe I should take getField and create a new super mutant snippet

I think that the main difference in getDoc and getField is that the latter knows how to get TV’s also.. so if (you need to retrieve TV’s) { use getField } else { use getDoc }