Using a Template Variable against a Weblink

A weblink can have a template, but when I edit one linked to a template with a template variable I can’t see the template variable to edit it. I want to categorise my weblinks.

Any ideas? I’m using 0.9.2.1.

what kind of snippet do you use to list weblinks? Ditto/Newslisting or DropMenu/Wayfinder?

I will be using Ditto, when it works. The site has a folder full of articles, another folder full of blog entries and a folder with weblinks to latest headlines. The idea is that I have a comma separated TV to hold tags for each item. Then, at the bottom of an article or blog entry there is a See Also link which loads a page using Ditto to display any other blog entries and articles with the same tag. I want to add to this page a ditto list of news entries as well, but I can’t tag them.

The website address is http://www.specialfamilies.org so you can get the idea what I am trying to do.

John

Actually, not even the template selection saves when it’s a weblink. But I dont see any reason why weblinks couldnt have TV’s too.. maybe file a bug report / feature request.

Because the document is checked for "type" before it’s parsed, and if it’s a "reference" type the sendRedirect function immediately gets called with the content as the argument. A "reference" document never hits the parser.

All I need is for the Manager to allow a template variable to appear on the edit page for a web link. I agree the parser isn’t necessary, but as ModX core snippets such as Ditto feature tag filtering now, it makes sense to allow a tag to be stored against a web link.

John