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Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

sottwell — Aug 22, 2014, 11:10 PM

FastField, or even better install pdoTools with the custom parser option. This will give you the custom MODX tags [[#docid.fieldname]], as well as faster listing snippets like pdoMenu and pdoResources that are virtually drop-in replacements for getResource, Wayfinder, etc.

For example, pdoMenu can be configured to not waste its time checking for permissions in the case of a site that doesn't use them.

Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

grogorio — Aug 22, 2014, 09:36 PM

Old thread, but the GetResourceField snippet worked for me in case anyone else comes by here searching for an answer.

Scenario: You want clients to be able to edit content in your templates site-wide, but you don't want them messing with your templates or chunks.

I first tried the @DOCUMENT TV approach and it had a couple of flaws.

1. It introduced TVs that the client shouldn't touch for fear of breaking them, and explaining why they could edit one TV and not another was going to be tricky.
2. It was a bugger to get it to work with lots of cache clearing and removing / reinstalling involved. Even then some of them would randomly and inexplicably refuse to display the content, instead just showing @DOCUMENT NN

If this sounds like you, grab the GetResourceField snippet and include the call to your resource in your templates. Works great.

Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

markh — Dec 24, 2010, 12:39 PM

Oops, yea. getField was for Evo

Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

basw — Dec 24, 2010, 12:26 PM

I think Mark means with getField the GetResourceField snippet. That´s my suggestion too, works for me.

Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

markh — Dec 23, 2010, 05:16 PM

You can use a snippet like getResources to fetch a page’s content. Just set it’s template chunk to [[+content]] only. (Remember to call &includeContent=`1` also, as I don’t think it includes content by default without it)

You can also make your own snippet if you want, may save some resourced compared to the getResources snippet.

$docid = 999; // Put the ID of the resource with the sidebar content here
$resource = $modx->getObject('modDocument', $docid);
return $resource->getContent();

Untested, but should work

Oh and another option would be using the getResourceField snippet.

Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

lowelife — Dec 20, 2010, 10:41 AM

hence my original question

modx is quite fantastic, I am just not very bright

Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

rethrash — Dec 20, 2010, 10:34 AM

You can’t put @DOCUMENT or any at-bindings in a template. They only work in TVs.

Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

lowelife — Dec 20, 2010, 10:16 AM

Thanks Ryan, but I seem to be off track.

For context:
My site has a sidebar that will contain a vertical stack of hyperlinked images. While I’m sure there are different ways for me to implement this for my clients, who are not HTML savvy, I have decided that while I am learning modx the easiest thing for me to do is have the content of the sidebar be contained in a document resource, which they can conceptually understand as a reusable/included element.

Right now, my template contains a TV that references the document using @DOCUMENT 11

My original question was whether I could just do the reference from the template, rather than from the TV, because I want to remove the clutter of TVs from the editing experience.

When I do as you suggest, put @DOCUMENT 11 directly in my template, it just outputs as text.

Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

rethrash — Dec 18, 2010, 11:34 AM

No wrappers for the at-bindings at all. Just put @DOCUMENT or @FILE (etc.) inside the text or textarea inputs on the backend of the Manager.

Re: Revo - Pull document content into a template without a tv?

lowelife — Dec 18, 2010, 08:45 AM

Thank you.

Unfortunately [[@DOCUMENT 11]] doesn’t display the content.

Running:
MODx Revolution 2.0.5-pl (traditional)
On hosted Linux Apache