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Template Variables in Ditto +content+ placeholder

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    mmilo Reply #1, 18 years, 5 months ago
    Hi all,

    Is there a way to have a template variable show up in the [+content+] placeholder for Ditto?

    Note: I’m not placing the template variable in the Ditto template, as seen here (http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,6120.0.html)

    I made a simple text TV, and set a value for it in the document itself. When I go to the actual document link, the TV will show, as expected. However, when Ditto is listing the documents, the [+content+] placeholder won’t output the TV. It’s not a problem of truncation, since any text I put after the TV shows up, and trunc=`0` is on.


    Also --- I noticed that the parameters listing for Ditto 2.x doesn’t include the 1.x ones. Is it supposed to be this way? Should I just refer to the two of them?

    Thanks,
    Mike



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      sottwell Reply #2, 18 years, 5 months ago
      When Ditto outputs the content, it is a direct display of the content; the content is not parsed, it’s taken straight from the database. So any MODx tags will not be processed.
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        bwente Reply #3, 18 years, 4 months ago
        I don’t know if you found your solution, but I thought I would put here so the next person would find it.

        &hiddenFields=`myTVinsideContent`



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          dab Reply #4, 18 years, 3 months ago
          This template (lastnews) shows the full news item on the home page:

             <div class="ditto_item" id="ditto_item_[+id+]">
        <h3 class="ditto_pageTitle"><a href="[~[+id+]~]">[+pagetitle+]</a></h3>
        <div class="ditto_documentInfo">by <strong>[+author+]</strong> on [+date+]</div>
        <div class="ditto_introText">[+content+]</div>
    </div>



          & show using...

          [[Ditto? &startID=`2`  &removeChunk=`Comments` &tpl=`lastnews` &paginate=`1` &extenders=`summary,dateFilter` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &tagData=`documentTags`]]
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            AndreasT Reply #5, 18 years, 1 month ago
            Quote from: bwente at May 20, 2008, 08:14 AM

            I don’t know if you found your solution, but I thought I would put here so the next person would find it.

            &hiddenFields=`myTVinsideContent`

            Thanks, this works nicely. I was planning to further abstract it by putting the content in a chunk as the content is identical except for the TVs.

            But Ditto does not parse a chunk in the content either, is there a similar way to make it parse a chunk?

            A quick rundown of what I am trying to achieve: I am building a page that displays customer endorsements. I have created a container which serves as the displayed document. Inside the container is a separate document for each endorsement. These documents have TV’s for text, logo, image alt text and signature.
            I am using ditto in the container to display the full content from these documents. The &tpl is a chunk with simply [+content+].

            Cheers,

            Andreas