How Do I Include TVs from another Resource?

I have a series of what I call Detail Pages. Each links to a corresponding Photo Gallery resource.

When the Photo Gallery resource is displayed, I'd like to have a few of the contents from the other resource brought in, and also have a button that can be clicked to get back to the original Detail Page.

Thought I had this solved by creating a TV on my Gallery Template to contain the ID of the resource it's associated with, and then use that in a pdoResources call for bringing in the contents I want. I'm doing something wrong though and it's not working as expected.

So lets say resource 9 is my detail page.
In my Gallery page I enter the number 9 in the TV field I set up. It's a TV named: detail_ID

My first chunk that is on the template contains the snippet call


My Chunk is: propDetailInfo
For now it just contains:


Basically, what I want is that when I create a new gallery resource, I want to be able to enter the ID of another resource in a TV field to be use for importing / including a few TV contents from that resource.

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong with this?

[ed. note: mmcgee last edited this post 11 years, 7 months ago.]

This might work for part of that: http://modx.com/extras/package/showtv2 [ed. note: BobRay last edited this post 11 years, 7 months ago.]

Bob:
The link you provided is to an add-on developed in 2010 that appears to be some kind of output modifier for TVs

I circled back around and did a search through the add-ons and found YOUR add-on ShowTV developed in 2012. This one appears to be what I need.

Question: How to I or can I use a template variable for the value of &resourceID? That value will be different on every resource. I will always be getting the same tv values, but where the come from changes. And where they come from would be number that I enter into a TV field.

Not sure exactly how to explain this. I create a resource. I enter a number in a TV that is the number of a resource from which I want to get some TV values. That number that I enter then would need to appear in the snippet call.

[[!ShowTv? &tvID=`12` &resourceID=`*MyTemplateVariableForTheIDNumber` &render=`0`]]

Bob:

I wish I had discovered the error with the link much much earlier today.

I loaded YOUR ShowTv Add-On. And it worked exactly like I wanted! Better yet: It accepts a template variable for &resourceID. This is a big plus for me.



Thanks,

Marc

Sorry about that. I didn't know there was another one and thought the 2 at the end was a typo I had made (link fixed above).

I'm glad it worked for you.