[SOLVED] Using getResourceField as a kind of include...

Newbie question here. Digressing, BobRay helped me with my last question. I felt kinda honored as our office had just purchased his book.

So here's the scenario...

We have a TV that is editable and displaying on template A.
We want the TV to also display on pages created with template B--much like a server-side include.
Obviously it won't show up by simply using the MODX code to call a TV.
Tried to use this code, but it isn't working (probably because I am new to MODX)...



We have one way of create server-side include like files, by creating an HTML fragment file in assets and calling it with a snippet that returns file_get_contents(). It works, but we don't want our users to be editing HTML. We want them to modify a TV on template A with rich text and have it cascade to the rest of the site automatically.

I had thought that getResourceField would work. Is my code incorrect or my understanding off-base?

Any help would be appreciated. [ed. note: zensmile last edited this post 13 years, 1 month ago.]

You could use Bob's ShowTV snippet: http://bobsguides.com/showtv-tutorial.html

Maybe the extra ClientConfig [ http://modx.com/extras/package/clientconfig ] will be an option? Can be handy for editors to edit some information that can be called anywhere in any template. So no dependancy needed in templates.

You need to use the &field property to give it the name of the TV you want, like this:

Thank all of you for your help. Bob's ShowTV was the easiest and exactly what I was looking for! Thank you, thank you. And thank you BobRay for writing the tutorial.