Newbie Simple Question: Grandparent's Title

Hi all! I’m hoping someone can help me with this? I’m relatively new to ModX and have searched high ’n’ low but with no luck, I’m more of a HTML/CSS person so please don’t flame my post!

First of all am I using the right snippet to do this?
I’ve tried GetField with my install and I’m getting nothing. Not even an output with the most simple call. So I tried PHx and installed the phx:parent custom modifier. Using [*id:parent*] I get the parents page title which is perfect - but I also want the parent’s, parent’s (grandparents?) title.

Any clues?

I recommend you try again GetField.

Maybe this will work

[[GetField? &field=`pagetitle` &parent=`1` &parentLevel=`2`]]

Play with the parentLevel value.

Maybe the UltimateParent snippet can do the job... have a look at it, it returns the ultimate parent ID of a resource, when you have ID you can easily get the pagetitle...

Hope this helps
cheers

Hi! Thanks for your input:
@cipa - GetField didn’t work at all I believe it may by install.
@anso - I’ll let you know how I get on.

Thanks!

You can also try ParentParent. Similar to UltimateParent.

Quote from: takingbacksunday at Sep 30, 2009, 08:33 AM

Hi! Thanks for your input:
@cipa - GetField didn’t work at all I believe it may by install.
@anso - I’ll let you know how I get on.

Thanks!

The GetField snippet should return somthing. Check that when you created it, the name has capital G for Get and capital F for Field and you call is the same.

This will return the ultimate parent.

and this will return the document parent.


Could use both together. What exactly do you want it for, as could somthing like breadcrumb do the trick?

Thanks

Ben

Hi Everyone!

Thanks for your collective inputs - this was a user error and I’ve solved it using GetField:


When I installed GetField I left half the code out of the snippet - (must have been tired) DUMB@$$! :’(

I told you I was a newbie!