Trouble pulling image in via TV

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xxxmicrobexxx Reply #1, 11 years, 6 months ago

Hey there, maybe someone can answer this.

I have a template with an image TV shopimage. If I create a resource using this template and call the TV I can see the image as expected. So far so good.

Now I am trying to build a list of resources, think of it as being like the listing for a blog, using getresources. On the parent page I want to show the image from the TV as part of each listing. To clarify, imagine a list of blog posts with a thumbnail, the thumbnail being the image in the TV.

The chunk I am using as a template (shopTpl) looks like this;

<div class="shopitem">
<div class='shopitemimage'>[[*shopimage]]</div>
    <div class="shopitemtitle">[[+pagetitle]]</div>
     <div class="shopiteminfo">
    [[+introtext]]
    </div>
</div>

Here's my getresources call;

[[!getResources?  &tpl=`shopTpl` &parents=`[[*id]]` &includeContent=`1` &includeTVs=`1`]]

Nothing is returned from the TV at all, but the pagetitle and introtext are there.

What am I missing? Thanks in advance

Bonus points: If I add *content instead of +introtext it completely breaks...why is that?

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Paulp Reply #2, 11 years, 6 months ago

Try this for your chunk:

<div class="shopitem">
<div class="shopitemimage"><img src="[[+shopimage]]" alt="[[+pagetitle]]" /></div>
    <div class="shopitemtitle">[[+pagetitle]]</div>
     <div class="shopiteminfo">
    [[+introtext]]
    </div>
</div>

And for the call:

[[!getResources?  &tpl=`shopTpl` &parents=`[[*id]]` &includeContent=`1` &includeTVs=`1` &processTV=`1`]]

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xxxmicrobexxx Reply #3, 11 years, 6 months ago

Thanks PaulP

Still nothing

<div class="shopitemimage"><img src="" alt="page title" /></div>

I had already tried with the img tags, and had also already tried the processTV.

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Bruno17 Reply #4, 11 years, 6 months ago

Bonus points: If I add *content instead of +introtext it completely breaks...why is that?

This:

[[*....]]

is replaced by fields and TVs of the current Resource.

This:

[[+....]]

is replaced by placeholder-vars. In this case placeholder-vars, which are generated by getResources for each listed Resource

if you add

[[*content]]

and this breaks everything, you may run into a infinite loop, if you have getResources in the content with its own content-field in it. [ed. note: Bruno17 last edited this post 11 years, 6 months ago.]

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Bruno17 Reply #5, 11 years, 6 months ago

you should try

[[+tv.shopimage]]

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xxxmicrobexxx Reply #6, 11 years, 6 months ago

Couple of other things I have tried with no luck is inputting TV as an image and outputting as text. Again, if I view the actual resource, I see the output as expected. But it seems that when it passes through the chunk it gets "lost".

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benmarte Reply #7, 11 years, 6 months ago

You need to change your chunk to this like Bruno said:

<div class="shopitem">
<div class='shopitemimage'>[[+tv.shopimage]]</div>
    <div class="shopitemtitle">[[+pagetitle]]</div>
     <div class="shopiteminfo">
    [[+introtext]]
    </div>
</div>

Make sure you have includeTvs and processTvs in your getresource call set to 1 and leave the TV output as default.

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xxxmicrobexxx Reply #8, 11 years, 6 months ago

+1

Thanks Bruno and Benmarte.

Can you explain why that works but the regular TV link doesn't?

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xxxmicrobexxx Reply #9, 11 years, 6 months ago

Ahhh.....and yes Bruno, that seems to have been the problem with content.

Because I had in the getresources call &includeContent=`1` and was then using *content it likely was infinite looping. I removed &includeContent=`1` and BINGO.

Thanks so much for your help...ModX can be bloody confusing, but very powerful.