[SOLVED] Very Odd, Ditto doesn;t seem to respond, outputs "No Documents Found"

I have worked with and used Ditto for years and never had this issue. The call just won’t work, it keeps displaying "No documents found."

Here is the call:


The debug info does NOT display BTW, and when I added a &noResults parameter, it did not dispaly the parameter text on the page. I have also tried changing the &tpl parameter to something that doesn’t exist to intentionally throw an error. No change to page when I do that. This happens on every page of the site I am using Ditto.

Here’s the page:http://67.20.108.159/the-wolffer-team

Details:
Cached Page + Uncached Ditto Call. (also tried the other ways too)
MODx 1.0.3

Ideas?

Hi,
I’ve had sort of an opposite problem, and I wonder if it could help you. I have never gotten "orderBy" to work. But I get good results using "sortBy" all the time (using "menuindex" or what-have-you), in conjunction with "sortDir" for the ASC part.

Ditto always has surprises even though I use it all the time. It’s possible that "orderBy" requires a certain version of MySQL or something, I just don’t know. Debug isn’t working... very strange.

Beyond that, it’s hard to say without seeing the innards of your site. I wonder if it could even be something like being inoperative due to being on a non-propogated URL or some other server setting that we can’t see.

Good luck, dave

You’re asking for children of the current page. Does the page actually have children?

Also W3C is showing a couple of errors in the Ditto section:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2F67.20.108.159%2Fthe-wolffer-team&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Hi Samba,

I tried removing all parameters actually and it still does the same thing.

BobRay, Yep, It has children. I also tried pointing it to the root and the same thing happens. The Validation issue is actually the default noResults text which has a p tag wrapped around it I have Ditto wrapped inside a UL tag.

The crazy thing is that no matter what I add to the Ditto call, it does the same thing. I could add gibberish to the snipet parameters and it still says "No Documents Found"

I’m going to wipe the snippet directory and reupload, maybe it’s a corrupted file, or an encoding issue <grasp>straws</grasp>

OMG, this was a totally ridiculous mistake. Needless to say, my forehead hurts from slapping it.

I have a template with the Ditto call embedded in it (which I forgot I did), so I kept changing the Ditto call on the document content field, but it was never being pulled onto the actual page.

It’s too late. I have to go to sleep.

Thanks for everyone’s suggestions, believe it or not, they helped narrow my scope to find this stupid gaff.