Placeholders for resource that needs to be viewed as itself and from GetResources

I use a lot of template variables for my resources. If the page is viewed directly, the placeholder syntax for TVs is [[+tvName]]. But if I need the same resource to be called into a listing with GetResources, those same placeholders need to be [[*tvName]] to work correctly. Do I need to create two copies of every such resource, or is there a handy workaround?

(I think you have + and * reversed in your post..)

This is a neat thing to do if you can make it work, have a chunk which can be called directly from a template, and as a getResources or MIGX template.
First, you want to use only placeholders in your chunk. If you're calling it directly from a template which has those TVs, do it like this:
[[$someChunk? &tvName=`[[*tvName]]`]] (in your chunk you'll always reference tvName as [[+tvName]])

If you want to get fancier, you might look at my extra, called setPlaceholders ( http://modx.com/extras/package/setplaceholders ). It lets you do all sorts of fun stuff like that.
For instance, you can store a TV in a placeholder for your whole template, and any chunks and snippets called from it.
Near the top of the template you'd have something like: [[setPlaceholders? &ph=`tvName == tv.tvName`]]

Quote from: drwagner13 at Feb 27, 2013, 02:00 AM

I use a lot of template variables for my resources. If the page is viewed directly, the placeholder syntax for TVs is [[+tvName]]. But if I need the same resource to be called into a listing with GetResources, those same placeholders need to be [[*tvName]] to work correctly.

This is backwards, BTW. It's the other way around.