Output modifier & TV - Use specific link or link to resource.

Hi guys

Using getResources, I have a grid of company logos on a page.

Some of the logos link a company website while some link to a MODX resource.
The link address itself is determined by a TV. This TV has its Input Type set to URL.

What I'm trying to do is create an output modifier which makes the logo automatically link to a MODX resource if no URL is manually input into the URL TV.

The code in my chunk is as follows:



It works apart from the URL address. You can see below that if I don't specify a URL, the HREF remains blank.
What I want is the logo to link to the MODX resource connected to the thumbnail.

I've had similar issues if I recall right and the solution was pretty much close to yours:



Having conditional like empty, I've used the :then=`` and :else=`` always. Some output modifiers seems to need that kind of formatting. Or I could be completely wrong about that but it is worth the shot.

Also you could simplify that quite a lot, move the conditional inside the href="" so you save loads of space at least.

Would edit the unnecessary </a> tag from the post but firehost is blocking my edit posts

Thanks Dunnock.
You're right that the second example greatly simplifies the code.

Still getting a blank http:// when no URL is specified. Do you have an example in use that you could root out for me?

Quote from: dunnock at May 27, 2013, 01:34 PM

Would edit the unnecessary tag from the post but firehost is blocking my edit posts

Yep. Saw that, thanks.

Cant find any, all databases lost couple of times with computer crashes

You could also try [[+tv.URL:default=`[[~[[+id]]]]`]]

The id is default if the URL is empty.

Sorry, am in rust. Spend my freetime with xpdo stuff and profession is far away from computer screens