Ditto, getResources, Articles - Upgrading from MODX Revo 2.0 to 2.2

I've upgraded a site from Revo 2.0.6 to 2.2.4-pl and it looks like Ditto is no longer an option? It's how I constructed the blog functionality and I have a suspicion that I need to convert everything to getResources (not sure how hard that is). Or perhaps converting everything to Articles is a better route? Thanks in advance for input.

No, Ditto has been deprecated for Revo in favor of getResources. There are some differences, but the principle is the same, so I've found it easy enough to switch from one to the other. For example, a plain listing might look like this in Ditto

Same thing in getResources


This is a handy link to keep around.

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources

Articles is nice, but not as flexible, so depending on what you're doing Articles may or may not be the solution for your situation. [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 14 years, 2 months ago.]

If it's a blog, Articles may give you a lot more control and options, though it will take longer to convert. As Susan says, converting Ditto to getResources is very easy and getResources is usually faster.


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This is very helpful. Given the project I think the faster route of getResources makes more sense. For some reason though I can get any output with the snippet call. Which for starters looks like this:



There seem to be traces of Ditto in my install (http://cl.ly/image/2J0L1S0s1Q3D) and the following was showing up in the MODX error log but now it stopped for whatever reason:



Any ideas on how to best troubleshoot getResources giving no output? I did try reinstalling it in Package Management as well as a complete forced package removal followed by a fresh install. Also, the MODX error log is empty when I load the page where getResources is being called.

Make sure the resource with the ID of 7, and its children, are published, not hidden from menus, and not protected by any permission rules.


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[ed. note: BobRay last edited this post 14 years, 1 month ago.]

Sorry to have disappeared there for awhile and thanks for your last reply, Bob.

So it was the fact that the blog posts (as resources back before the Articles extra existed and was using Ditto) had Hide From Menus checked. Duh. Simply &showHidden in the getResources call and voila, I'm back in business. The call now looks like this:



Related thread: https://forums.modx.com/thread/43556/getresources-and-menus

Thanks again all! The MODX community rocks.

Just a Note:

This behavior hasn't changed in Articles either, FWIW. Articles extra hides Articles by default. Just letting you know, in case you run into the problem again.

Ah yes, makes sense. Thanks!