NewsPublisher RTE TV caveat - My Forums

Re: NewsPublisher RTE TV caveat

rethrash — Nov 29, 2005, 10:33 PM

Right, and I definitely understand... but the part that is slightly confusing is that calling with the News Publisher "tvblogContent" actually uses the tv "blogContent".

To make matters more confusing, the News Publisher when called incorrectly with tvname=`blogContent` renders a nice RTE instance. When you hit the submit button, it just empties the RTE instance and stays on the page. When you call it with `tvblogContent` it both renders and actually makes a submission.

We probably need better error checking in that regard to prevent confusion. Like I said, if I got confused on it, a newer user will ask ALL sorts of questions.

Re: NewsPublisher RTE TV caveat

xwisdom — Nov 29, 2005, 10:20 PM

Quote from: rthrash at Nov 29, 2005, 09:47 PM

Why the heck do we need to do that, btw?

Namespace? Without the "tv" prefix existing Widgets could conflict with other HTML element on a page that uses the same name. For example:

A regular form field

An auto generated TV widget

Some TV stuff here

Re: NewsPublisher RTE TV caveat

rethrash — Nov 29, 2005, 09:05 PM

Correct, but it’s not in our current online documentation and if someone as familiar as I am with the system gets tripped up, then it’s an issue that bears repeating. A lot.

Re: NewsPublisher RTE TV caveat

MARKSVIRTUALDESK — Nov 29, 2005, 06:00 PM

This was explained in that bit of documentation that came out with TP3.2 about the new snippets.

NewsPublisher RTE TV caveat

rethrash — Nov 29, 2005, 03:47 PM

http://modxcms.com/blog-publish.html

I think that we need to explain that it is important to prepend the tv name with "tv" when calling it, or it won’t work. That caught me for half an hour or more...

Why the heck do we need to do that, btw?