Include Pre Built Content via TV

Thanks so far for all the help.

So from a few posts and reading the forums i've now got 1 template, with a TV asking if you want 1 2 3 main columns / rights columns etc and then inserting that output to a stylesheet to then show or hide divs based on the users input. Not sure if this is the best way to do this but i'm still learning.

My next question is, lets take right col 1 for example. I want to have 3 choices for the user
1) Pick a pre built piece of content to include (something thats repeated like contact details

or
2) Title
3) Content

So is it possible in the TV to have a list of pre built content that a user can select to include and if nothing chosen ignore and use content from 2 / 3 to build that module

Thanks for any more help.
Ben

Hi,

understand well that you want the user to be able to eg tick a box to make that pre built content appear in col_1. Or another box to just show a title (h1?) and another one to show just content? Would the latter be pre built? Or a document in the tree the user can create?

Anyway, you could eg use ditto. So make a container, in there you put you prbuilt content in the form of documemnts.

Make a tv eg "box01" with a choice for these document id inside that container. In the tpl you could use place holders [+pagetitle+] etc. Create one tpl per choices you want and a tv (iBox01 as example) that would point to those three different tpl chunks

ANd create a call with that TV in it:

[!Ditto? &documents=`[*box01*]` &tpl=`[*iBox01*]` &display=`1`&noResults=` `!]

now box01 would fill out the number of the doc you want to show and Ibox01 would give the choice on how to show it. Hope it sounds okay, best, Frank.

I'm a little fuzzy on your second part, but your first part I can help with.

I'm assuming you want something like this http://grab.by/aYid a way to select from some pre-formatted / built content.

Here is how we did it. http://grab.by/aYih pretty much we're pulling in a category of chunks into a check box list. the snippet GetChunks is being used to load that.

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet('getChunks',array('category'=>'Side Widgets'));

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Create_TV-Based_Chunks here is some more information.


Now you can expand this further to answer your second part and use output filters to conditionally have 1 2 or 3 columns based on what is selected. http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Input+and+Output+Filters+%28Output+Modifiers%29

Something like this might work.

Smart Shawnh, realy nice solution

dont know if this is evo or revo, but as for the columns, there s this solution too, for EVO, by Susan Otwell. TV call goes before the end head tag </head>
A TV, radio options point to following chunk ( and there could be more chunks:



The chunk, two column, just hides a column and changes width:

:

Thanks for taking the time.

Couldn't get it working via the screenshots, but following the link and creating the snippets i've got it parsing.

The next part has stumped me though.

Trying to get to show check box if selected else show manual way. Tried this bit of code but think i've gone a little wrong.

Try

Thanks Mark

Getting closer, but still not what i'm expecting.

Now when i click on either of the radio buttons for my tv it still showing the contents of rightNav1

Yet if now radio buttons selected i don't get anything showing.

Not sure if i'm just way of the mark. What i'm trying to do is check if a button has been selected in my tv, if yes pull in the content of the chunks, if it's empty and nothing selected then show $rightNav1

So if the checkbox is empty you want to display your chunk, and else the chunkListParser snippet?

OK, now when there is no radio button selected is shows the content, but not parsing the !chunkListParser

Putting in another chunk shows that, so it's now outputting the snippet,

Placing the snippet gives me an output on it's on but not with the empty / notempty [ed. note: benmason1983 last edited this post 15 years ago.]