Activate TV once for multi page

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sinbad Reply #1, 11 years ago

Hello all,
I have 3 contact forms on a site, we usually reply to forms withing few hours and clients are expecting that.
sometimes I want to display a message that we will be closed until dd/mm/yyyy at hh:mm and will reply then due to holiday or whatever reason.

right now I have a checkbox TV which calls a chunck named $closedUntil which I need to enable on all three form pages.

Which approach will you go with if you were me and wanted to enable certain TV on several pages with single click?

I thought about having the chunk directly in the code but have it mis-spelled in the backend when I don't want the message to display, this will work but sounds too dirty IMO. I would love to hear some suggestion if anyone has any!
Thank you

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 11 years ago

you could enable/disable the chunk-display by a system-setting or a clientConfig-setting

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BobRay Reply #3, 11 years ago

To expand on Bruno17's answer, A text System Setting (let's call it closed_until) and a snippet something like this would be how I would do it:

Add this to the closedUntil chunk:

<p>We will be closed until [[+back_date]]</p>

<?php
$closed = $modx->getOption('closed_until');

if (empty($closed)) {
    $output = '';
} else {
    $output = $modx->getChunk('closedUntil', array('back_date' => $closed));
}

return $output;

The System Setting will be empty normally, but contain the date you'll be back otherwise.

The terse, slightly more efficient, version would be:

$closed = $modx->getOption('closed_until');
return empty($closed)? '' : $modx->getChunk('closedUntil', array('back_date' => $closed));

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sinbad Reply #4, 11 years ago

Thank you both. great ideas. @BobRay love the expansion!
tested and work sweet!

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BobRay Reply #5, 11 years ago

I'm glad I could help.

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