Ditto 2 &removeChunk not working

Unfortunately, removeChunk doesn’t seem to work with dynamic chunks, other than Jot (??).

If my chunk looks like this:
{{BlogHeader}}


and my call to Ditto includes &removeChunk=`BlogHeader`, it is stripped out fine.

However if the chunk has template variables or snippet calls, it is not stripped out:


Is there a solution for this?

Hmm...

"If you have [*fields*] in your [+content+] make sure Ditto already has access to them in the form of [+field+]. If you need to add a field but not have it displayed use the &hiddenFields parameter."

From http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,13533.0.html

How about putting the jot-call in your template for the documents, then when Ditto fetches [*content*], there is no need to do "magic" to remove the jot-call.

I’ve had the same issue with removeChunks. It’s as already stated due to the dynamic nature of chunk contents (ie [!Jot.....!]. When the chunk is dynamic it’s output is generated prior to chunk removal and therefore doesn’t match chunk removal procedure and remains in place.

I’ve worked out a work around for myself:

I have a page for an RSS feed with the following snippet call:

I tried the <!-- splitter technique but it didn’t work. Make sure you don’t use the full chunk code {{..}} and it should see you through.

Hope it helps.

I can’t seem to get this to work or figure out why. Sorry if this has been answered I just can’t get my mind around the issue. Here is my code. I’m just trying to get rid of the comments section on the page but show full content.

[[Ditto? &dateFormat=`%B %d, %Y` &dateSource=`pub_date` &tpl=`ditto_blog` &removeChunk=`FormBlogComments` &extenders=`dateFilter` &parents=`83` &tagData=`MyTags` &tagdelimiter=` ` ]]

Thanks for any help.

See my post above. I’ve got it working using truncate. Only way possible with dynamic chunks.

As stated, removing a comments chunk where the only dynamic piece is a call to the Jot snippet works. However calls to other snippets or template variables in the chunk do not allow it to be removed. I don’t know why Jot works. I have worked out a solution for myself that includes not needing to remove any chunks. (separate templates and display pages).

Scottishbullet, if the only dynamic piece in your FormBlogComments is a call to jot, experiement with [[ ]] and [! !]. For me to get it to work, I had to use an uncached call to [!Ditto? ..!] and within the Comments Chunk an uncached call to [!Jot? ...!]

Thanks for your help - I got it to work. I didn’t have the call to Jot uncached.