I can't set my TV to a non-default value

Hi,

I’m trying to set up a minimal blog with categories. So, I made a template variable like this:

Variable Name: BlogCategory
Caption: Zee Blog Category
Description: Category of the blog post
Input Type: Check Box
Input Option Values: Baby||Garden||Website
Default Value: Baby
Widget: Delimited List
Delimiter: ,
Sort Order: 0

All Templates and Document Groups are allowed to use this.

So, when I make a new document, I see my TV, and all three choices for it (Baby, Garden, Website). However, if I unclick Baby and click Garden and then save it, it still ends up with Baby selected.

What am I doing wrong?


Web Server:
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PHP version: 5.1.4-p10-gentoo
MySQL version: 14.7
Operating System and version: gentoo, up to date with emerges

Browser/Client:
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Browser name and version: Firefox 1.0.7
Operating System and version: Windows XP Pro (up to date with updates)

I’d be happy to provide more information, screen shots, etc. Am I just asking a stupid question?

Quote from: mglerner at Aug 12, 2006, 04:41 PM

Hi,

I’m trying to set up a minimal blog with categories. So, I made a template variable like this:

Variable Name: BlogCategory
Caption: Zee Blog Category
Description: Category of the blog post
Input Type: Check Box
Input Option Values: Baby||Garden||Website
Default Value: Baby
Widget: Delimited List
Delimiter: ,
Sort Order: 0

All Templates and Document Groups are allowed to use this.

So, when I make a new document, I see my TV, and all three choices for it (Baby, Garden, Website). However, if I unclick Baby and click Garden and then save it, it still ends up with Baby selected.

What am I doing wrong?

Might check if you have the document set a cached.
Would load with your default, you would change....refresh and the cached version loads again with default.

terry

I’m not sure what version of MODx you are using but have a look at the manager/processors/save_content.processor.php and look for the section labelled "// handles checkboxes & multiple selects elements", then make sure it’s looking some like this:

// handles checkboxes & multiple selects elements
$feature_insert = array();
while (list($featureValue, $feature_item) = each ($_POST["tv".$row[’name’]])) {
$feature_insert[count($feature_insert)] = $feature_item;
}
$tmplvar = implode("||",$feature_insert);

My computer died pretty hard and I just finished fixing it. I’ll try both of these things out. Thanks!

Hi,

Niether of these seem to help:

1) I set the document to uncacheable. When I’m editing it, I can set the TV to Garden under the General tab, and it sticks temporarily. That is, if I then click on the Page Settings tab, it’ll show up as garden. Ditto for any of the other tabs (that is, if I set it in any of them, I see it in the others). However, as soon as I click on the Save button, it reverts to the default option (Baby).

2) I’m using MODx 0.9.2.1 (rev 1005). The PHP looks basically the same to me. The only difference I see is that there’s a space between "each" and the opening parenthesis on the third line of mine

3) If I get rid of the default value, I can never set the TV to any value. If I change the default value to Garden, I get the expected behavior that all pages end up with the value Garden.

Any more guesses?

Thanks!

I’ve poked around some more, and still no luck. I’d like to just re-install everything, but we have quite a bit of content up, so that’s not going to work. Any more ideas, or is it time for me to figure out the PHP equivalent of "printf debugging"?

I could reproduce your issue. So I think even re-installing would be of no help.
However, I found a setting which worked for me, i.e. stores individual TV-values:
As a widget I used "String formatter", not "Delimited List" (with "sentence case" as the sub-setting).
And left the rest as you have it.
The drawback is, that the default value does not work any more.
I was always a bit suspicious of those "widget" stuff and rarely used it.
And the inheritance of TV-values also has some problems, and maybe this also affects this default-value stuff.

I hope that one from the dev-team drops in and gives you more competent help.
I just thought that storing the TV-values is the most important aspect, not the default value.

silent-

Hopefully the fact that it’s reproducable will get a little attention from the dev-team. Thanks!

So, I changed the widget to "String formatter" and then selected "sentence case" .. but that didn’t help for me. I get the exact same behavior. I also tried creating new documents, in case it was just a problem with editing TVS for existing documents, but that didn’t work either. Are you sure you didn’t change anything else? FWIW, I tried leaving a default value of "Garden" and also deleting the default value. Neither worked.

Screen-shot showing my TV-setup attached. One of the differences might be that I haven’t tried to edit the TV from the frontend, just from the manager-backend.