Collections: How to categorise content

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Andy Jones Reply #1, 10 years, 11 months ago

Hi,

I have a page on my site called 'people'.
This includes an image, name, and title for each employee.
Each employee also belongs to a team (customer services, sales etc).
So I've created a collection for people, and have output them as list items within a <ul> - all great - but I want to have a separator <li> to show the name of their team (e.g. customer services).
I am thinking of having a collection for each team - but is there a simpler way?

Thanks as always!
Andy

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 10 years, 11 months ago

I would put them into a custom-table with a second team-table and would relate them to each other.

But in your case, with Resources, you could use Tagger to categorise them.

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sottwell Reply #3, 10 years, 11 months ago

I use different pdoResources snippets for each group, filtering on their team TV.

<ul>
<li><h3>Team One</h3>
[[pdoResources? 
  &parents=`56`
  &limit=`0`
  &tpl=`teamTpl`
  &includeTVs=`team,photo`
  &where=`{"TVteam.value":"team1"}`
]
<li><h3>Team Two</h3></li>
[[pdoResources? 
  &parents=`56`
  &limit=`0`
  &tpl=`teamTpl`
  &includeTVs=`team,photo`
  &where=`{"TVteam.value":"team2"}`
]
...
</ul>

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sottwell Reply #4, 10 years, 11 months ago

You could generate the list of teams, and have their tpls contain the individual pdoResources snippets, but I prefer to keep things as simple and transparent as possible.

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Andy Jones Reply #5, 10 years, 11 months ago

Thanks all - I have tried by using nested collections - one for each team, and then calling them one by on e- seems to work OK.

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sottwell Reply #6, 10 years, 11 months ago

That's the greatness of MODX. Always more than one way to do things!

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Dansig Reply #7, 10 years, 10 months ago

I want to second Bruno’s suggestion of using Tagger with Collections. It works pretty seamlessly and provides an easy interface for clients. It also uses friendly urls to allow further refinement in how you show groups.

In fact, I just wrote a tutorial on how to add a column to the Collections list that shows the tags for each item:
https://forums.modx.com/thread/98747/howto-add-tagger-column-to-collections-list#dis-post-533990

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