SelectBox Tv, Select values from MIGX Tv.

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Ben Morrison Reply #1, 12 years, 8 months ago

I am trying to create a selectbox tv that is populated by the entries in a MIGX tv. This way a user can create "categories" in a parent resource and then in the child resources they can choose which category a child resource belongs to.

This question has been answered by Bruno17. See the first response.

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Jason Sonderman Reply #2, 12 years, 8 months ago

first, selectbox is a listbox? There isn't a "selectbox" input type I am aware of.

If I am reading this correctly, then you would need to make the listbox tv values into an @EVAL binding, and point it to a custom snippet:

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet('myMIGXValues')

The snippet would need to go get the MIGX tv value for the resource's parent, and parse the JSON value to return it in the proper format : Title == value || Title2 == value2

More on @EVAL bindings here: http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/making-sites-with-modx/customizing-content/template-variables/bindings/eval-binding

As for the snippet itself, getting the TV value for a resource's parent can be a bit more involved. BobRay has a good write up on how to do it here: http://bobsguides.com/revolution-objects.html He addresses getting raw and processed TV values from different resources about halfway down the page.

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Bruno17 Reply #3, 12 years, 8 months ago

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet('getImageList',array('tpl'=>'@CODE:[[+category]]','outputSeparator'=>'||','tvname'=>'yourMIGXtv','docid'=>'theParentsDocid'));

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Ben Morrison Reply #4, 12 years, 8 months ago

Works perfectly, thank you both!

Ben Morrison
Hacking templates to pieces since 2003

Answered SelectBox Tv, Select values from MIGX Tv.