Avoiding clients breaking snippets when editing pages with a snippet call

Hey,

long time no post but...

How do you avoid clients editing pages with a text editor that has a snippet call in them, my experience is that this normally breaks the snippet by changing a & into an & (currently experienced with FormIt)

I turn off the editor but there must be a cooler way.

Thanks,
Taff

1. Put the snippet call in a chunk and use the chunk tags in your editable content.

2. Use an external configuration file for the snippet so the only parameter in the snippet call is the config file; with only one parameter you don't need the & at all. Apparently formit doesn't have the ability to use an external config file

3. Make a copy of the snippet to customize and set the argument values in the snippet code, then use your customized copy. [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 14 years, 8 months ago.]

External config files are not recommended. This is what PropertySets were created for. That said, you could also isolate the portion of content in a Chunk or TV that you hide from the user via security or form customization.

Thank you both for your comments. I'm liking the chunk idea a lot.

Easy when you know how!

Cheers,
Taff

Property sets. Hm. Will look into that. I had thought these were global to all uses of the snippet, but if they can be customized on a per-use basis then they would be most useful.

Yes! Excellent! http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Properties+and+Property+Sets

I would strongly recommend this rather than putting the snippet in a chunk. Less awkwardness figuring out where stuff is coming from, as well as less processing for MODx to do when generating the page. [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 14 years, 8 months ago.]

ok, I'll take a look. Thanks again