Strategy to create WP-like Custom Document Types

I'm thinking to a strategy to create custom document type with modx.

Basically I want to automatically assign a specific template by picking a tag (value) from a specific Tagger (extra) group or a TV value (but I will prefer Tagger as a creation taxonomy tool).

I created a Tagger group named tx.docType containing tags corresponding to each custom document type I want (name/alias): Audio/
tx-doctype-audio and Text/tx-doctype-txt.

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The first idea is to ask to modx to automatically assign a specific template for each document type by forcing the template selection, overriding the template resource setting :


if tx.docType = none/tx-doctype-none OR undefined => assign template normally with the modx resource setting template dropdown.

if tx.docType = Audio/tx-doctype-audio => assign tx-doctype-audio template

if tx.docType = Text/tx-doctype-txt => assign tx-doctype-txt template

Next steps :

- How to get the Tagger (or alternatively a TV) tx.docType value ?
- how to assign programmatically a template on the front end by checking the tx.docType value with a plugin?
- how to assign programmatically a template on the back end (by calling a snippet) ?

Tagger Extra: http://modx.com/extras/package/tagger

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The second idea seems to me more simple (no needs to fight with a back-end plugin) :

Back end : without any TV or Tagger group
Front end : modx template should be also selected on the front-end for new documents.

Questions :

- Where may I find a guide to create documents from front end ?

- How to add searching & sorting capabilities in order to display documents with specific template setting (i.e. template = tx-doctype-txt, template = tx-doctype-audio etc.)? [ed. note: johnxx last edited this post 12 years, 1 month ago.]

Finally found a simple solution with Formit extra (second idea) and hooks.

You also might be able to work with NewsPublisher.