Custom Bulk Actions (Collections)

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natedin Reply #1, 11 years, 3 months ago

Hi is there a way to add custom bulk actions to Collections? I've had a dig through the forums/google but unable to find anything! Ideally I'd like to be able to change a tv value on multiple resources selected.

Thanks!

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BobRay Reply #2, 11 years, 3 months ago

I think the closest thing to that would be the Batcher extra, but I don't think it operates on Resource TV values.

You could do it with a form (or a Custom Manager Page) and a custom snippet. The code to set the TV values is really simple. The user interface is the difficult part.

Given an array or comma-separated list of Resource IDs, the ID of the TV, and the value you want in the TVs, this is all you need (off the top of my head -- untested):

$resourceIds = array(4, 10, 23, 38);
$tvId = 12;
$value = 'some value';

foreach($resourceIds as $resourceId) {
    $c = array(
        'tmplvarid' => $tvId, 
        'contentid' => $resourceId',
    );
    $tvr = $modx->getObject('modTemplateVarResource', $c);
    if ($tvr) {
        $tvr->set('value', $value);
        $tvr->save();

    }

}

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natedin Reply #3, 11 years, 3 months ago

Thanks for the info Bob, think I'm going to have to make my own custom CMP and emulate a WordPress plugin the clients migrating from... should be interesting!

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