Help With Nested MigX TV defaulting to manager user

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BearsFan Reply #1, 10 years, 8 months ago

Hi, so I have a TV named Notes, with some nested migx TV populating it with fields note and author. So basically, in a record, we can add multiple notes to the Notes TV.

On my CMP page, grid looks fine.

Now I'm trying to get the author field to simply default to the current manager user, but I'm not having any luck. Basically, I want that field author to appear in the Columns, but I'll hide it in the formtabs, since it will just default to whichever manager user is entering the note.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27428611/setting-default-value-to-user-extended-field-in-modx- which describes a similar request (except i don't need to get an extended field, just the username)

I saw from this post above -- that this default value gets determined during rendering of the tv...

I have a snippet working [[GetUser? &userId=`[[*createdby]]`]] that works fine in a page, but in my CMP this is another matter that I can't wrap my head around. I've tried @EVALs, but they seem to bust up the grid. I tried using renderChunk and ran the snippet through there, but that seems to overwrite all of the notes authors.

So, i'm hoping this is fairly simple and I just have a blind spot. any thoughts? pasting both of my configs below.

Thanks!
Anthony

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 10 years, 8 months ago

when you use the renderChunk - renderer, you have to use another,unused fieldname for that column.
Otherwise the field gets overwritten with the rendered value.

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BearsFan Reply #3, 10 years, 8 months ago

Hi Bruno, thanks for the reply. I can't say I followed 100%. Are you saying to take my author field TV, set it's input TV to "newTV",

and then in the column view, do I set the field value to "author" or "newTV"?

and run a renderChunk with [[!GetImageList? &tpl=`author-tpl` &tvname=`newTV`]]?

Confused....thanks for any help again, I really appreciate it.

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Bruno17 Reply #4, 10 years, 8 months ago

I think, I'm confused, too.

Not sure, to understand, what you need.
Is it the hidden-field with the createdby - value, which defaults to the current manager-user, what you are asking for, or is it the value, shown in a column of the grid, where you have trouble with?

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BearsFan Reply #5, 10 years, 8 months ago

Well, I think both. LOL.

I'll try and re-state, see if it helps. So I have a nested MigX TV called note, which feeds into a Notes TV. I want to also show the author of each note, so i created a second field named author. I want this field to auto populate with the username of the modx manager user. I obviously want to hide it from the input view, but show it in the column grid, so they can see who wrote the note.

Leads is the Migx Config that appears in the CMP page. Notes config is the nested setup.

Here are some screenshots....I appreciate you reviewing and if I'm not making any sense, please feel free to let me know and tell me to bug off

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Bruno17 Reply #6, 10 years, 8 months ago

this seems to work:

{
"header":"Author",
"dataIndex":"author"
},{
"header":"Author name",
"dataIndex":"renderAuthor",
"renderer":"this.renderChunk",
"renderchunktpl":"[[+author:userinfo=`username`]]"
}

        "field":"author",
        "caption":"",
        "description":"",
        "description_is_code":"0",
        "inputTV":"",
        "inputTVtype":"hidden",
        "validation":"",
        "configs":"",
        "restrictive_condition":"",
        "display":"",
        "sourceFrom":"config",
        "sources":"",
        "inputOptionValues":"",
        "default":"@CHUNK getuser",

chunk getuser:

[[+modx.user.id]]

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BearsFan Reply #7, 10 years, 8 months ago

Thanks! Now if I can just replicate what you did !!!

I basically have it working where it seems to work fine when I create the note. If you look at screenshots, the note "added by jason" shows jgrant as the username.

But when I go to edit that note after it is saved, then it switches it to another user in the author field "acaffiero", and a subsequent save replaces "jgrant" with "acaffiero". This all happens while logged into manager as user "jgrant".

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Bruno17 Reply #8, 10 years, 8 months ago

hmm...
when I'm logged in as john, I get john as createor.
when I edit the same entry, the creator doesn't change.

let me see all your formtabs and columns-code, please (no screenshot)

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BearsFan Reply #9, 10 years, 7 months ago

sure, let me know if this is what you need. Thank you for looking!

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Bruno17 Reply #10, 10 years, 7 months ago

yeah, needs to be another,unused fieldname for the renderChunk-column for example:

    {
      "MIGX_id":2,
      "header":"Author",
      "dataIndex":"render_the_authorname",
      "width":50,
      "sortable":"false",
      "show_in_grid":1,
      "customrenderer":"",
      "renderer":"this.renderChunk",
      "clickaction":"",
      "selectorconfig":"",
      "renderchunktpl":"[[+author:userinfo=`username`]]",
      "renderoptions":"",
      "editor":""
    }

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