display ditto results in columns

Hi,
I’d like to Ditto to display a list of documents and get the results in a column fashion. The ditto call looks like:



I have 2 "simple" questions:
1) Can I sort the results by "longtitle", ie: alphabetical order
2) How should the template "columns" look like to display the result in columns...

Thanks for any pointers...

Ok, I solved 2) by using simply the 2 parameters: &sortBy=`longtilte` and &sortDir=`ASC`

http://ditto.modxcms.com/examples/columns.html

Thanks Mark!

Quote from: Mark at Jan 29, 2008, 01:31 AM

http://ditto.modxcms.com/examples/columns.html

How can I do this example? Can anyone let me know what chunk to use for that display of columns?

The CSS, adjust to suit:

The snippet call and surrounding markup, adjust for your docs etc.

The "ditto_columns" tpl chunk, again choose your own placeholders etc.

Quote from: bunk58 at Jun 06, 2008, 05:02 PM

The CSS, adjust to suit:

<style type="text/css">
#columns li h4 {
text-decoration: none;
background: #000000 ;
margin: 0 ;
color: white;
padding: 5px !important;
font-size: 90%;
}
#columns li {
float: left;
height: auto; /* can set this to keep boxes the same length */
width: 21% !important;
margin: 10px;
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 5px;
}
#columns {
list-style: none;
width: 100%;
margin:20px 0; 
}
</style>

The snippet call and surrounding markup, adjust for your docs etc.

<ul id="columns">
[!Ditto? &startID=`15` &summarize=`10` &total=`18` &tpl=`ditto_columns` &showarch=`0` &extenders=`summary` &trunc=`1`!]
</ul>
<br style="clear: left"/>

The "ditto_columns" tpl chunk, again choose your own placeholders etc.

<li>
<h4>[+pagetitle+]</h4>
[+summary+]
<br/>
[+link+]
</li>

FANTASTIC!
just what I was looking for!