getResources &parents question

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dubbs Reply #1, 16 years ago

Hi guys,

Is it possible to use getResources (which is a fab tool btw! Much better than Ditto!) to call a specified resource, rather than calling a resource from a container....

E.g. I want to specify it to call ID 25... How would one do this? using &parents=’25’ does not work as that makes it look for resources to pull from inside resource 25...

Any ideas?

cheers,

dubbs.

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dubbs Reply #2, 16 years ago

Doh! Just realised don’t use &parents but &resources instead and specify the resource id!

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GoustiFruit Reply #3, 16 years ago

Well, that’s for the theory.
In reality, it doesn’t work (for me):

I have this structure...

Res0 (1)
|- Res1 (2)
|- Res2 (4)
|- Res3 (5)
|- Res4 (6)
|- Res5 (7)
|- Res6 (8)

I have 2 calls to GetResources on my page, the first one should retrieve the resources 2,4,5 and the second one should retrieve the resources 6, 7, 8:

[[GetResources?
	&parents=`1`
	&resources=`2,4,5`
	&includeContent=`1`
	&includeTVs=`1`
	&processTVs=`1`
	&tpl=`someTpl`
	&sortdir=`ASC`
]]

[[GetResources?
	&parents=`1`
	&resources=`6,7,8`
	&includeContent=`1`
	&includeTVs=`1`
	&processTVs=`1`
	&tplFirst=`someOtherTpl.first`
	&tpl=`someOtherTpl`
	&tplLast=`someOtherTpl.last`
	&sortdir=`ASC`
]]

But both calls retrieve all the resources under (1) ! I tried with or without &parents, I tried different combinations for &resources, but I can’t get it to work :’-(

Edit: no, even worse, I didn’t notice first but for some reason, it only retrieves 2,4,5,6,7 (not cool

!? This is probably a different "bug".

Edit2: I can’t change the "sortby" property in the property inspector of GetResources, I’m getting a list with two "invisible" items that will clear the property when selected (any), instead of toggling between ASC and DESC.

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dubbs Reply #4, 16 years ago

Try removing

&parents=`1`

from your snippet calls as you do not actually need it, resource IDs are unique so if you call resource 2,3 and 4 getResources does not need to know they are children of resource 1

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GoustiFruit Reply #5, 16 years ago

As I said, I already tried with and without &parents !

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dubbs Reply #6, 16 years ago

Try changing you call from

[[GetResources?]]

to

[[!getResources?]]

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GoustiFruit Reply #7, 16 years ago

Same thing !

About my first edit...

it only retrieves 2,4,5,6,7 (not

...I found out the reason: property &limit has a default value of 5. I think it should be 0 so the user would have to specify a limit only when he needs, and not overwrite the value most of the time.

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GoustiFruit Reply #8, 16 years ago

Just to be sure: does anyone use the &resources property without the &parents ? How does it work for you ?

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dubbs Reply #9, 16 years ago

Works fine for me!

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GoustiFruit Reply #10, 16 years ago

There is definitively something wrong: I finally succeeded to have it working the way I want by using &parents=`2` (or 4 or 5) for the first call and &parents=`6` (or 7 or cool

for the second call ! That is that I have to use any value for &parents as long as it belongs to the list of resources I want to display, and not the parent itself !?