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Newspublisher doesn't create new resource

bendy4 — Jul 08, 2015, 08:43 AM

I'm a novice Modx revo user, trying to get the Newspublisher to work.
My Newspublisher call is on resource with ID=40 :

[[!NewsPublisher?
&show=`pagetitle,VerDatum,VerPloeg,VerThuisploeg,VerUitploeg,VerUitslag,VerSoortWedstrijd,VerVerslagTekst` 
&initrte=`1`
&rtcontent=`1`
&initdatepicker=`1`
&listboxmax=`1`
&templateid=`7`
&parentid=`41`
]]

As you can see I have a lot of template variables.
The new resource must be created under resource with ID=41, and must use template with ID=7.
The variables are assigned to the template with ID=7.

When I go to the Newspublisher resource, it shows the form, and I can fill in all the fields/variables, but when I hit "Submit" it comes back to the form and nothing is created.

When I leave out the &show line in the Newspublisher call, I get the standard form in Newspublisher and the resource is created at the right place with the right template!
But as soon as I use &show it goes wrong. And I need the &show to use my template variables.

Anyone can help ?

Modx version : 2.3.3
Newspublisher : 2.1.0

Re: Newspublisher doesn't create new resource

bendy4 — Jul 15, 2015, 01:59 AM

Thanks guys, got it working !
Great to get this help as a novice here.

Re: Newspublisher doesn't create new resource

BobRay — Jul 10, 2015, 03:57 PM

It's a good question. That's why I used OnDocFormSave rather then OnBeforeDocFormSave. They should be there by the time that event fires (hopefully). OnBeforeDocFormSave might work, but I think probably not.

NewsPublisher sends the TV values to the resource/create processor, but unfortunately, AFAIK, they're not in the array sent to the System Events, so you have to get them from the DB.

Re: Newspublisher doesn't create new resource

donshakespeare — Jul 10, 2015, 03:53 PM

Quote from: bendy4 at Jul 10, 2015, 07:07 AM

I want the pagetitle to be altered based on the values that the user entered in the TV's.

@BobRay, in his case, do the TVs have values already in the MODx DB, or are they going to have their value for the first time when he submits the form?
Or upon saving, are the TVs registered before the pagetitle? - I am not even sure I am making sense to myself.
I am in wonder how MODx works here.

Re: Newspublisher doesn't create new resource (Best Answer)

BobRay — Jul 10, 2015, 03:37 PM

I'm guessing somewhat, but it should look pretty much like this (connected to OnDocFormSave). This assumes that the IDs of your two TVs are 12 and 22, so change those numbers to the actual TV IDs. This would be the entire plugin code:

$value1 = $resource->getTVValue(12);
$value2 = $resource->getTVValue(22);
$resource->set('pagetitle', $value1 . $value2);
$resource->save();
return '';

There are some ways to speed this up, but since it won't affect page-load speeds, they're probably not worth the trouble.

Re: Newspublisher doesn't create new resource

bendy4 — Jul 10, 2015, 02:07 AM

Bob, I want the pagetitle to be altered based on the values that the user entered in the TV's.
I was thinking that it must be done before saving the resource, like you suggest.
But I've never written any plugin because I'm fairly new to modx revolution, so this is a difficulty for me.
Can you please show me an example of such a plugin ?

Re: Newspublisher doesn't create new resource

BobRay — Jul 09, 2015, 07:03 PM

It's not clear to me whether you want to alter the pagetitle based on the TV values set by the user, or on the basis of the default TV values.

If you want to alter the pagetitle of the new resource on the basis of the TV values set by the user, you should be able to do it in a plugin attached to the OnDocFormSave event, though using JS to alter the pagetitle immediately based on them is also an option. If you want to alter the pagetitle shown when the form comes up on the basis of the default values of the TVs, JS would be your only option.

Re: Newspublisher doesn't create new resource

bendy4 — Jul 09, 2015, 05:25 PM

Thanks for the reply, but what exactly do you mean by exposed in the browser ?
In the Newspublisher form the template variables are filled in, and in the new created resource they are displayed.
In the pagetitle of the new created resource I want some of those template variables.

Pagetitle is not the only field with an input[type=text], there are also template variables with input[type=text]

Re: Newspublisher doesn't create new resource

donshakespeare — Jul 09, 2015, 05:03 PM

Are your template variable values exposed in the browser at the time of saving/submitting? If so you can use JS(jQuery) to do manipulation of data on the fly.

If your TV values are not in the browser, that is another question.

Question:
Is pagetitle the only field with an input[type=text] that you specified in NewsPublisher?
If so, you can duplicate npTextTpl, and do some magic in the value of the input way before it hits the browser.

Re: Newspublisher doesn't create new resource

bendy4 — Jul 09, 2015, 03:59 PM

Indeed, I figured that out already, but I have one next question/problem :

Is it possible to set the pagetitle of the new resource, that is created by Newspublisher, to a concatination of some of the template variables?
example : after hitting the submit button in Newspublisher I want the pagetitle to be VarPloeg VarDatum.

Searched the forum and found this tread : http://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=31326&page=1, but this is to difficult to understand for me as novice user of modx.

Anyone can help ?