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Nested TVs

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    glardon Reply #1, 19 years, 8 months ago
    Hello

    I am using Ditto to publish the last 4 items in a news folder on the homepage. The template of a news item contains 2 TV’s: thumbnail (image) and thumbnailAlt (text). The TV thumbnailAlt is used within the widget of the TV thumbnail to allow content managers to define a custom alt-text for each thumbnail. Something like this:

    Widget properties Alternate text: [*thumbnailAlt*]

    This seems to work fine when displaying the thumbnail and alt-text on the news item page itself. However the alt-text is not displayed when publishing the items on the homepage via Ditto.

    Any ideas? Suggestions are very welcome!
    Gino
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      MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #2, 19 years, 8 months ago
      Could you provide your Ditto call and template?
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        glardon Reply #3, 19 years, 8 months ago
        Hello Mark

        The call:
        [!Ditto? &tpl=`NewsOverviewTpl` &startID=`9` &summarize=`2` &displayArchive=`0` &total=`2`!]


        The template
        <div class="newsItem">
<h3>[+date+]: <a href="[~[+id+]~]">[+title+]</a></h3>
<div>[+tvthumbnail+][+summary+]</div>
</div>


        Suggestions?

        Many tnx
        Gino Lardon