Ditto and Chunks : &tpl either does not contain...

I’ve got a really simple problem with Ditto displaying the results on a news page. If I nest a chunk within the &tpl chunk I get a ’&tpl either does not contain any placeholders’ error.



The &tpl=`one` chunk:


The test_code chunk:


But the result is:

&tpl either does not contain any placeholders or is an invalid chunk name, code block, or filename. Please check it.

However if I replace {{test_code}} with the html it works fine.

Can anyone let me know what I’m doing wrong please?

Ditto expects to see at least one placeholder tag, link tag, or template variable tag in its template.

Thanks for responding!

In that case is there anyway to assign a class name to <div> in the Chunk based on whether it’s called by &tpl, &tplFirst or &tplLast?





The html code in the Chunks one, first and last are identical except for the DIV class name used for styling.

you can try to create a TV ’dummy’ with no content and add it to your chunks:

Thanks Bruno17.

That got rid of the ’&tpl either does not contain...’ error, and it processed {{test_code}} but for some reason it doesn’t return a value for [+title+], or any other placeholder except [+id+] now.

output result

<div class="news_style_one">
<h3><a href="news/story1"></a></h3>
</div>

perhaps you have to use [+pagetitle+] instaed of [+title+] and/or make use of the parameter &hiddenFields=`pagetitle`, because Ditto retrieves only fields, it can see in the template (and some special fields like id). May be Ditto cannot see placeholders in chunks which are included in Ditto-chunks.
to get these for Ditto hidden fields use &hiddenFields.

Thanks for your suggestion again.

I’ve had a go at using &hiddenfields but without luck. However from the description on the ditto support site it does seem that is the correct method to use. So I’ll have another attempt.

@banbbc:

The problem you encounter is strange, but try this as it could help.
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,40862.msg324330.html#msg324330

J.