Using richtext field for introtext_(yams_id) in YAMS does not work

Now after coming to the closing stages of that website my customer wants that introtext as a richtext field in order to be able additionally to add website addresses using TinyMCE.
The problem is:
Output of that text is not shown on Ditto listing at all as soon as any HTML is added into that introtext field but it works as long as there is only text.
Output is also shown as long as there is only text and no special character like the german ü in that text. In that case the text is shown just to that position before that special character.
What can I do to make YAMS work if I use a richtext for introtext?

Thats how it looks like in the chunk.

hi,

well, two different things
- why not create your own tv in this case, using the RTE, i've never had any problem with this (just name it differently)
- your yams call to get the tv is a little heavy (not to say weird ), why not

i have this working in a lot of chunks/templates... the get=`text` aiming at dealing with strings actually

have swing

Hi and thank you for your quick answer. I would like to use that &get=`tv` but it does not work.

It works If I only use that placeholder in the chunk without that YAMS call


but it does not work if I use it in the YAMS call.

or any other construction like the one you suggested.

Now I also have created a TV called referenzintro_en, but I dont know how that should work by using your call.

I dont remember why I used throughout all chunks &get=`text` inside that YAMS calls, maybe because &get=`tv` did and still does not work.
[ed. note: universal_next last edited this post 15 years, 1 month ago.]

hi,

well it's funny, normally the yams call should be


in a chunk you can also try this

docid being the id of the ressource you're using the chunk in, if this chunk is called through a snippet just give the id to the snippet as a parameter, eles if you just use in the template, it should do it as it is

have swing

thank you for explaining. I already knew all that because it took me a long time last year to understand how YAMS works but I never managed to make it work using something else than &get=`text` in a YAMS call.

Here is what I am using in that matter.


and in that chunk named "ReferenzenListe", is that call for that tv "referenzintro" set as RTE. That chunk is used for a Ditto call.
I use it in the way shown on my first entry on top of that page because I use the same chunk for all languages.
Please remember everything works fine if I use &get=`text` but only as long as there is no HTML in that RTE field given.

What can YAMS cause not to show the content of a TV by only changing the call to &get=`tv`?

I use modx 1.0.4 and YAMS 1.2.0 RC3.
I dont think there is something wrong on the setting of YAMS on the configuration tab or other settings.

[ed. note: universal_next last edited this post 15 years, 1 month ago.]

hi,

yes i understand tat yams behaviour may sound strange in this kind of situation, that's why i suggested the get data instead, something that works well in many chunk situations

something else, i don't know tvExplorer (never used it) but according to what i see the call is lacking something important to have ditto and yams working fine together, the YAMS extender, the yams_id and the language

a ditto call would be


that may explain why the simple and usually working get data from tvname doesn't work here, too bad, here, i can't help to say where to pass those through tv explorer

have swing

edited, forgot to say that be the problem with html in the get text are all the special chars , you would run into exactly the same problem with a string containing any tag, that's why i imagined my own language file system with yams for when i need a little more complex strings containing html, quotes or else [ed. note: virtualbear last edited this post 15 years, 1 month ago.]

thanks for you help.
I used that yams_id and so on in tvExplorer on the &dittoSnippetParameters part but it did not change anything.
Can you tell me what is mandatory on YAMS if you want to use &get=`tv` or &get=`data`?

Could it be that this output problems have nothing to do with YAMS but with tvExplorer?

Okay I made it work.
All I did in the chunk was only to add &docid=`[+id+]` and use &get=`data`


By the way I left my tvExplorer call just as it was


Thank you for all your help