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  • Hello everyone.

    I’m new to modx. I am using modx revolution and I am trying to set up an online magazine, but I am struggling with getresources.

    I want to display news articles (each article is a child of Resource (5)). My template has three columns and I want to display the news articles across two of these columns, as follows:

    1. In column one I want a headline article
    2. In column one, underneath the headline article I want the next three articles
    3. In column two, I want a bullet list of the next 6 articles.

    I have put the following snippet call between the div class that holds my headline article:

    <div class="post">
    				[[!getResources? &parents=`5` &limit=`1` &tplFirst=`mainarticle` &includeContent=`1` &showHidden=`1` &sortby=`publishedon`]] 
    
    </div>


    My chunk (mainarticle) is correctly coded and displays output. Here is the chunk:

    <div class="title"><h1><a href="[[~[[+id]]]]">[[+pagetitle]]</a></h1></div>
    
    <div class="date">Published On: [[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%d %B %Y`]]</div>
    
    <div class="body">
    
    					<p>[[+introtext:default=`[[+content:ellipsis=`300`]]`]]</p>
    
    <a href="[[~[[+id]]]]"> <class="extra">Continue Reading;</a></div>


    Do I now have to put a second snippet call between the div’s where I want my next lot of articles and give this its own &tpl chunk, or do I use another &tpl with output filters within the above call?

    Sorry for bugging you guys who think this is a stupid question.
    • I have been able to resolve this issue by use of the &tpl_{n} property.

      Thanks to Splittingred. The following post assisted:

      http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,53442.msg309151.html