Ditto Summary not working?

Hi there,

I’m using Ditto to list out some docs, but for some reason the [+summary+] is not coming out?
All the child docs have content, and some of them have introtext set? The wiki tels me: "Either introtext in full if set, or the first part of content. "
This is not happening?

Ditto call:

[[Ditto? &parents=`10` &tpl=`news_item` &summarize=`4` &showInMenuOnly=`1` &depth=`1` ]]

Template:

<div class="news_item">
<h4>[+title+]</h4>
<p>[+summary+]</p>

<div align="right" class="newsclear"><a href="[~[+id+]~]"><img src="assets/templates/images/readmore.gif" alt="Click Here to Read More"></a>

</div>
</div>

Thanks in advance!

Assuming you are using the latest version of Ditto, I think you have to add &extenders=`summary` to the snippet call in order to make the [+summary+] placeholder work.

I think that should work.

PS I would also check to see if &summarize is a valid parameter, I think you want to use &display instead. But not sure.

If you use [+introtext+] (same thing; this is the actual database field name for the "Summary" input field) you don’t need to use the extender.

thanks guys, working fine now!