Ditto with no parent

I thought this was possible. Say I have resources like images that will be displayed on different pages, but use the same standard code. Rather than me creating templates for each page I want to abstract it out into 1 template, so it doesn’t matter what page I am on, it will still run the code.

Ok, this is the page I am working on:

http://www.webtise.net/~leasowca/

Now as you can see (if i’ve not worked it out yet) is an empty image tag.

The code I am using is thus:

I am calling this chunk from my Home template:



Which contains this code:



Which uses this template:



Now on my Home page in the tree structure I have a blank template called Heroes (18) and within that blank template I have my resources, my slides. If I give the ditto a parent of 18 then it works, but what happens when I want to use the same code on a sub page? I would rather not have to keep rewriting the code.

Does that make sense?

Anyone who can help me would get good will and cheer for a lifetime.

I’m finding this difficult to follow? Sometimes when you say ’template’ do you mean page?

It sounds like you should either call your chunk via a tv or use the &documents command in ditto and paerhaps call the document via a tv?

No when I say template I mean template.

Thing is, this method is kind of working for my sub navigation. You see when I click on Conferences for example - http://www.webtise.net/~leasowca/index.php?id=5 - I get my sub nav down the left, and I am pretty much calling these the same:

This is in a Template called Sub Template:



The chunk



I know I am using UltimateParent there - but I tried both ways and still no dice for my Slideshow.

Actually, my sub navs are resource children of the top level pages.

My slideshow images are resource children of a blank template/page called Heroes, which is in turn a resource child of the top level pages.




(sorry yes, when I say blank templates it a page resource container)

have added &depth=`2` and so far so good.

Thought there was some template confusion there!

I would change ’hen do’ to ’hen party’ by the way!

Ah not my decision unfortunately.

Weird thing now is an extra image is getting dropped in and it’s blank. I have no other resources so no idea where it is picking this up from.

Right so basically it’s not working as planned. I am picking up an extra image. This is so annoying, why can’t it be simple???

Is it picking up a ’default’ image that’s not there?

Nice site by the way.

It must be, driving me mad.