Working with (multiple) template variables

Hi,

Just playing with TV’s and have worked out how to use them. I’ve got 3 tv’s for a template I use which allows the user to enter an image, a date, and a url for each page.

What if instead of the tv’s being used for each new document, I want several (4 for example) instances of those 3 tv’s on one page. So my page would look something like this:



Anyone know how I’d approach that?

Do you mean the same image, date, and url displayed in four different places on the same page? In that case, simply put the TV tags in all of the places you want it to appear. Probably even better to make a chunk and put the three TVs in the chunk. Then place the chunk tags where you want them.

Do you mean the same image, date, and url displayed in four different places on the same page?

No, but I see why you might think that . . . I didn’t explain properly.

What I mean to say is that I want a different image, date and url. So there’ll be four images each with their own date and url.

I can only get this to work if I have 4 seperate documents each with one instance of tv1, tv2, tv3. I want there to be four instances (each different) on just one document.

Any ideas?

why not create more tv’s?

instead of tv 1,2,3 go on and make 4,5,6 and 7,8,9 and 10,11,12
that would do the trick would it not?

there is no limit (as fare as I know ) on how many tv’s you want to asign to a document.
I once made a template out of tv’s all images and text fields and even the layout was made using tv’s I think I had 24 tv’s.

Dimmy

You could make up four documents, each with your original TVs edited as desired, then use NewsListing to display them. I used this method to generate this menu:

http://www.dewegnaarwonen.nl/

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 17, 2006, 04:31 AM

You could make up four documents, each with your original TVs edited as desired, then use NewsListing to display them. I used this method to generate this menu:

http://www.dewegnaarwonen.nl/

nice work I need to figgre out this for 1-vision.nl for the home page

[offtopic] Internet is realy worldwide is it not? you are from the usa living in Israel creating a website for a duch company. Thats so cool no more borders! [/offtopic]

Greets Dimmy

why not create more tv’s?

That’s precisely what I did but didn’t know if there was a "cleaner" way of doing it.

You could make up four documents, each with your original TVs edited as desired, then use NewsListing to display them. I used this method to generate this menu:

This is like the twilight zone! Last night I installed newslisting and thought . . . Man! I could of used this insted of all these vars

Thanks guys - this community is just the best!! I’m really starting to get lot’s out of Modx . . . just need to know how to use newslisting properly now!