So just testing the waters here on this and trying to determine what's possible, and more so, what is doable for me.
I have a home page with a full screen slider, and use a MIGx TV to control what appears in the slider. For now, it's an image of course, a title, a tagline and a price. Clicking on any of the above links to a resource related to what's being displayed in that slide.
In reviewing my setup, I'm wondering if there is a way to improve the setup. At the moment, there is a bit of double entry going on. For example, I have to enter a price on a given resource, and then if I want to feature that resource within the home page slider, I have to enter the price again in MIGx. As well, if the price changes —I have to change it on the slider. This doubling up is of course tedious, redundant, and potentially allows room for error.
So, I'm wondering—is there a way to simply pull directly from each resource the bits of information I want for use on my home page slider? (a main image, title, etc. etc.)
Is there a way to make entries into my MIGx TV that would pull for example the Main Image from resource 9, and also the title from resource 9, and the price from resource 9 etc.
Or is there another way to approach this? Maybe using pdoResources—with a goal of having a check box on each resource that gets checked if I want it to display certain content in my slider on the home page.
This could be something that is really simple to do, or really complex requiring a lot of custom php. Not sure. Thought I'd toss out the question and get a feel for what I might be in for.
[
{"header": "Image", "sortable": "false", "dataIndex": "image","renderer": "this.renderImage"},
{"header": "Alt", "sortable": "true", "dataIndex": "alt"},
{"header": "Title", "sortable": "true", "dataIndex": "title"},
{"header": "Tagline", "sortable": "true", "dataIndex": "tagline"},
{"header": "Price", "sortable": "true", "dataIndex": "price"}
]
For now my MIGx grid is set up like most, where you enter the information into the fields. I think what I'm asking is if there is a way to tie the field to a resource, like entering the resource ID, and the TV name. Or better yet, just enter the resource ID, and have the alt, title, tagline, price, image all get pulled together for that slide.
On my resource the TV name for price is propPrice. So is there a way maybe to tie the resource ID and propPrice together in MIGx to put it on the slide?
[ed. note: mmcgee last edited this post 11 years, 7 months ago.]
