How to populate with values from TVs

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guategeek Reply #1, 11 years ago
I would like pagetitle to be generated from two TV's on a document. I have bike-model-name and bike-model-year TVs already in use in the document, I want the pagetitle to be
```
"[[*bike-model-name]] [[*bike-model-year]]"
```
so that in the manager the document will follow the naming convention in use. I can't figure out how to do this, and having the client type in a name for the page (only used in the manager) as well as the name and year in TVs which is used on the page feels dirty.

I have read this topic but have had no luck with it:
https://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=31326&page=2

A last resort could be to be able to move [[*pagetitle]] to a different tab using "form customization" but that doesn't seem to be possible now ether.
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bertoost Reply #2, 11 years ago
Can't you create a plugin OnBeforeDocFormSave and then grab the both TV values and then set this combined as pagetitle?

Don't know if the validation accepts it, but it's worth trying?
Something like this; (not tested)
```
<?php
if ($modx->context->get('key') != 'mgr') { return ''; }

$eventName = $modx->event->name;
switch($eventName) {
    case 'OnBeforeDocFormSave':
        $bikeModelName = $resource->getTVValue('bike-model-name');
        $bikeModelYear = $resource->getTVValue('bike-model-year');
        $resource->set('pagetitle', $bikeModelName . ' ' . $bikeModelYear);
        break;
}
```
This will keep your pagetitle in sync.
Maybe even to hide pagetitle field in FC
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