is there an outerTpl for ditto?

Hi, I am just wondering if there is a way to tell Ditto to put a surrounding DIV or something else around all its output elements. I know I could output it myself, but I would find it nicer sometimes if Ditto could do it for me. Ditto can do so much

Martin

No, Ditto returns a flat file structure. You can use the tplFirst and tplLast and include the pseudo outer information in these tpls. Note that this will break if there is only one item returned since it will only display the first.

OK, thank you!

A good way to deal with this is to have a chunk (or a TV) with your outer container elements enclosing the Ditto snippet call.

Yes, that’s exactly what I already did before. But now, I’m having a different page where I need several Ditto calls with different parents (different from the current documentId. So this chunk-thing would not work for me.

Thanks anyway
Martin

@sottwell: but not the best way. If you deliver lists via Ditto and you have ul/ol/dl elements outside the Ditto results you get a validation error if the result is empty.

In this case the tplFirst and tplLast should be the better way ... but: if the result is a single list item you’ll missing closing list element. For that an alternate "tplIfSingle" would be helpful.

Then a TV is just what you need. It can be edited per-document.

Nope, because I have a page where the ditto results change depending on a date. Sometimes I have multiple list items, sometimes there is a single result and sometimes the result is empty. Therefore I created a solution what is not the best but works for me. You can see the real life example at: cms08.fct.de/en/services/training.html (development state, not public this time)

The whole "Schedule" list (right column) is a ditto output:


The shulungsListing2 is


schulungLeer is a modified hasChildren snippet. The leading ul is outside the ditto, the trailing ul is inside the tplLast. This is working for me.

Ah, I see. Yes, you would need a customized snippet to do that.

Or we all need an outerTpl for Ditto results that are not empty.