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YAMS - how to retrive a "general" value? [SOLVED]

andrearicci — Nov 21, 2011, 07:06 AM

How do I get a "general" value in YAMS, instead of a language specific?
I want to give an ID to the "body" (for CSS selection) but if I use 'pagetitle' it changes with the language. I was looking for the 'Internal Name' Document Object, but it doesn't seems to exhist.
Thank you

Re: YAMS - how to retrive a (Best Answer)

binaerstrom — Dec 02, 2011, 05:32 AM

Wow, didn't know that snippet
That looks quite perfected!

Thank you too!

Re: YAMS - how to retrive a

andrearicci — Dec 02, 2011, 05:28 AM

Thank you, I just found tthat I can simply use the GetField snippet, that should be installed by default.
The default call [[GetField]] already gives me the pagetitle of the current document, but can retrive other fields.
Now in my CSS I can point a document by its id, without language worries, even with yams:

If not using Yams it would be simply:

.
As you can see I also give the body a class based on the template, so I can easilly vary styles from my CSS witouth having to touch the templates any more.
I specially like this:

Re: YAMS - how to retrive a

binaerstrom — Dec 02, 2011, 03:50 AM

Hi,

I had a similar problem and got across with the MODx API (http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/API:getTemplateVarOutput). I created a little snippet (it's really just a basic function call) that takes two values (docID and TVname) and returns the value of the TV. I used this to get the link_attributes from a child document on the parent document.

 name of the TV (e.g. link_attributes)
*  &docID -> document ID (e.g. 13)
*/
 
$tvValStr = $modx->getTemplateVarOutput($tvName, $docID);
return ($tvValStr[$tvName]);

?>

Just create a new snippet add the code and place the snippet call inside your template.

Cheers,
Boris