Activate chunk via TV?

I have recently added a sidebar to my website, all of the content is populated by calling chunks. Instead of having a separate chunk per page, to call other chunks, is it possible to have the chunk enabled by the use of TV’s?

This is probably confusing at the moment, but I have chunks such as {{sidebar_home}} and {{sidebar_pageX}}, inside those I have calls to other chunks, {{static}}, {{link2}} and such.

What I am thinking, a way to have all the sidebar elements linked to a TV multi select box. This way elements can be enabled or disabled per page without having multiple sidebar chunks to manage. This would also ease on the template editing.

Thanks!

I always use TVs for those, the TV is a textarea type, and contains my chunk tags and any other tags or HTML I want in that block. Usually I use @INHERIT binding so each section will get its own values by setting only the parent document’s values.

Darn.. I was thinking someone would tell me that. That would be just as much trouble as what I am doing now, I think. I’ll think about it more when my head stops pounding

Thanks Susan

The select TV thing has been done for a long time, there should be several discussions of how it’s done on the forums.

And there’s this http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Create_TV-Based_Chunks

If I can get around to it, I plan on doing an update on ’Create_TV_Based_Chunks’. I am going to pull articles from a certain parent and use @DOCUMENT bindings to show them. (I dont want clients to have to know what a chunk is)

Ahh, that looks a bit cleaner and easier to manage than my mediocre implementation.

Thanks for the link!


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I have added the required code and I must say this is rather elegant.

Excellent

Thanks

Susan,

Have you gotten the tv_chunks to work with @INHERIT. It wasnt working for me when I tried it.

No, I’ve actually never used that; I’m a command-line type of person and prefer to enter my values by hand.

This is nice, but like Pro mentioned, having a way for these values to be inherited would be awesome. I also noticed if you change any of the names, you have to re-enable every instance of them. That is a bit annoying Also is there a way to sort or have these displayed in a specific order? All I could think of was to rename them with loose values so I could slip a new one in later.

Any Thoughts?

Thanks!

I also noticed an issue when using Ditto pagination, when you go to the next page it will load values from elsewhere... not sure where though. Maybe something else going on? http://sweetskies.fruitwerks.us/gallery.php when you click on the next page, it doesn’t reload the same chunks Even worse on this page.. http://sweetskies.fruitwerks.us/sold.php