welp I'm back [!newsletter!]

I love modx. -- wanted to make that clear...



I need to get only documents out of a particular container using the newsletter Snippet. I’ve perused the snippet and there only seems to be one method for achieving this through a "doc-group" assignment. This isn’t a very good solution for me and I was wondering if I’m missing something.

I’m using [!newspublisher!] to publish the documents through the front end and it doesn’t seem to have the ability to assign the document to a group.

the Ideal solution would seem like a simple enough mod to newsletter to add a passable param that would select docs out of a parent like [!Ditto!].

I’m really desperate here. I need [!newsletter!] to get it’s list from a container or I need [!newspublisher!] to create documents within a particular document group. I looked through [!ditto’s!] code and I don’t understand how it’s doing it. I see the method but I can’t seem to grasp it. is a there an API function available for getting documents based on a container?

I would take a look at the document.parser.class.inc.php that is in your modxroot/manager/includes folder. It has API functions called getAllChildren and getActiveChildren that should be able to get the "all" or "active" documents inside a container. It returns an array representing the data of those documents, so it will require some scripting to handle that data.