MODx Revo RSS with TVs [URGENT]

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pjldesign Reply #1, 12 years, 7 months ago

I sucessfully created an RSS for my MODx blog but can't seem to get the image to be spit out via the TV. I have to have this working by next week or my client will toss the blog (and all my beautiful work). If i specify a specific html path in the image tags in the template that my RSS doc is using, it works fine (obv i dont want in the template but in the chunk), but the [[*TV]] syntax doesn't work at all. And nothing I do is getting the image to work in the chunk. Seems odd that this is overlooked in every MODx-blog-to-RSS-feed tut i've researched. Any ideas? Thanks so much. Here's code:

template

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>[[*pagetitle]]</title>
<link>[[++site_url]]</link>
<image>
  <url>[[++site_url]][[*article-image]]</url>
  <title>img</title>
  <link>[[++site_url]]</link>
</image>
<description>[[*content]]</description>
<lastBuildDate>[[!getTime?format=`%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z`]]</lastBuildDate>
<language>en-gb</language>
[[!getResources? 
   &parents=`3`
   &limit=`0`
   &sortby=`createdon`
   &sortdir=`DESC`
   &includeTVs=`1`
   &processTVs=`1`
   &includeContent=`1`
   &tpl=`rssListing`]]
</channel>
</rss>

chunk:

<item>
<image>
  <url>[[++site_url]][[+tv.article-image]]</url>
  <title>img</title>
  <link>[[++site_url]]</link>
</image>
<title>[[+pagetitle:toCDATA]]</title>
<link>[[!++site_url]][[~[[+id]]]]</link>
<guid>[[~[[+id]]]]</guid>
<pubDate>[[+createdon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z`]]</pubDate>
<description>[[+content:toCDATA]]</description>
</item>

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Mark Hamstra Reply #2, 12 years, 7 months ago

Is the image TV outputting anything when you look at the XML source?

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pjldesign Reply #3, 12 years, 7 months ago

absolutely nothing... when i view the source of the page, I can see that the path determined by the [[++site_url]] tag is there but the rest of the path leading to the image (determined by the TV) isn't there. It must be something about the syntax...

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BobRay Reply #4, 12 years, 7 months ago

Try adding this in the getResources tag:

&tvPrefix=``

and changing the tag in the Tpl chunk to:

[[+article-image]]

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pjldesign Reply #5, 12 years, 7 months ago

good general advice. but as i said, the file path in the resource template isn't even being completed... it's completed in the tpl, but i think i'm probably calling it wrong there (per item)... i figured if i can get it working for the template it's a step towards getting it to work in the tpl. didn't work btw, but thanks so much for the suggestion. is displaying images in RSS feeds that uncommon?

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opengeek Reply #6, 12 years, 7 months ago

What version of Revolution are you using and what is the configuration of your Image TV?

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pjldesign Reply #7, 12 years, 7 months ago

revo 2.1.3

image tv is very basic: image input, default output, prepend turned off but no dice. base path relative: yes, base url relative: yes.

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BobRay Reply #8, 12 years, 7 months ago

My point was that you're calling it

[[*article-image]]

in the template and

[[*tv.article-image]]

in the Tpl chunk. It's a lot easier and more reliable, IMO, if you use the actual name of the TV everywhere.

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