Allow user to add multiple instances of a TV

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Emily Reply #1, 14 years, 2 months ago

Does anyone know what is the best way to allow the content editor to add multiple instances of the same TV to a page. For example,I want to have a page that includes a list of recent projects undertaken, including image and descriptive text - the editor can obviously add as many projects as they like and i would like to store each 'project' as a TV with the editor able to say 'add another'. In a similar way, i would like to have info boxes down the right hand side of a page, with the user able to 'add' another info box as and when they like.

This is Revo 2.2.4

Would really appreciate anybodies ideas or suggestions

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benmarte Reply #2, 14 years, 2 months ago

You can accomplish this easily with MIGX

Good luck

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Emily Reply #3, 14 years, 2 months ago

Thanks Ben, thats perfect - just what i was looking for

Don't know how much you know about MIGX, but is there any issue with having two TVs defined as richText on the same page, when one is using MIGX and the other isn't? I have everything working correctly, picking up the correct image and Title, but the Description being displayed is from the content of a different richText TV, despite the fact that in Form Tabs i am referencing the correct TV

{"field":"title","caption":"Title"},
    {"field":"projectdesc","caption":"Description","inputTV":"richtextTV"}
]

The TPL chunk makes reference to 'projectdesc' too:

<tr>
  <td rowspan="2">[[+image]]</td>
		<td ><h2>[[+title]]</h2></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>[[+projectdesc]]</td>
</tr>

Thanks

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benmarte Reply #4, 14 years, 2 months ago

No the only way that should happen is if your using the same TV, so if your template is already using projectdesc somewhere else on the page you can't use it in MIGX.

I'm not sure if I understood correctly but the main thing is MIGX should have unique TV names.

Hope that helps.

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BobRay Reply #5, 14 years, 2 months ago

To expand on Ben's comment, you can't have MODX tags of the same type and name pointing to different objects. MODX has no way of knowing which one you want.

Name collisions can be devilish to identify and debug, so you should always use unique names for all objects with a particular tag style, and remember that TVs and Resource content fields share the same tag type. For example, you should never have a TV called 'content,' 'pagetitle,' or 'description.'

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Frogabog Reply #6, 14 years, 2 months ago

Apparently you can't have a chunk and a snippet that have the same name either.

I'm glad I read this, and since you were saying it's the MODX "tag style" that can't use the same name, I started thinking it might actually be more than tag style that confuses MODX.

So on a hunch, I went and changed the name of the chunk that a snippet was using that completely gorked all pages that used this particular template, and it's fixed. I had used the same name as the snippet, thinking MODX would know which was which but it doesn't. Not only doesn't it know what to do with it, it doesn't know what to do with anything. It produces a completely blank page, nothing at all within opening and closing html tags except a few stray head tags (css and js mostly).

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Emily Reply #7, 14 years, 2 months ago

Hi Folks, Thanks so much for you comments - all really useful stuff

My problem is that the richtextTV which i am having issues with (though this has now been renamed to richtextrecentprojectsTV is only being referenced by one MIGX TV, so there shouldn't be any confusion. Let me show you my code below:

recentprojectsTV (Form Tabs):

[
{"caption":"Recent Projects", "fields": 
[
{"field":"titlerecentprojects","caption":"Title"},
    {"field":"descrecentprojects","caption":"Description","inputTV":"richtextrecentprojectsTV"}
]},
{"caption":"Image", "fields":[
    {"field":"imagerecentprojects","caption":"Image","inputTV":"imagerecentprojectsTV"}
]}
]

recentprojectsTV (Grid Columns):

[
{"header": "Title", "width": "100", "sortable": "true", "dataIndex": "titlerecentprojects"},
{"header": "Image", "width": "50", "sortable": "false", "dataIndex": "imagerecentprojects","renderer": "this.renderImage"}
]

recentprojectsTpl:

<tr>
  <td rowspan="2">[[+imagerecentprojects]]</td>
		<td ><h2>[[+titlerecentprojects]]</h2></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>[[+descrecentprojects]]</td>
</tr>

call from the template:

<table>
[[getImageList?
  &tvname=`recentprojectsTV`
		&tpl=`recentprojectsTpl`
]]
</table>

The problem is that the descrecentprojects is displaying the wrong text and not that identified in the page TV - Any ideas?

THANKS !

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Emily Reply #8, 14 years, 2 months ago

infact, further to the above, i actually don't know where the text it is displaying is coming from - to begin with it looked like it was from another TV on the page (called introboxTV, not MIGX) but when i update that text it does not reflect the text in the descrecentprojects field - it is almost like it has cached it somewhere - clearing the cache however makes not difference..............

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Bruno17 Reply #9, 14 years, 2 months ago

what do you get when you place this to your Template?

[[*recentprojectsTV]]

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Emily Reply #10, 14 years, 2 months ago

I get this:

[{"MIGX_id":"6","titlerecentprojects":"Garden Design in Fleet","descrecentprojects":"

This is a description of garden design in Fleet
","imagerecentprojects":"assets/images/plantofmonth-poppy.jpg"}]

which is the correct description.........