Modx ditto call and checkboxes - modx

This is my current ditto call and it works when only west is selected in the template variables (The template variable is a checkbox). I need to get this to work when multiple checkboxes are selected.
[[Ditto? &parents=`5` &depth=`1` &tpl=`map_person` &orderBy=`lastname ASC` &filter=`district,West`]]

The &filter should use field,criteria,mode so if it should only work on those who have West checked you should write this:
&filter=`West,2,1|East,1,1|South,1,1|North,1,1`
So it sais: Select a document that West is checked and East isnt checked and South isnt checked and North isnt checked.
You could also create a snippet that does this and goes through the children of parent=5 and echoes out a commaseparated list with all the children IDs and put them in a &documents parameter. Something like this:
[[Ditto? &documents=`[!FindExclusive? &district=`West` &parentid=`5`!]`]]
In the Snippet-code you could write something like this (only pseudo-code under here):
$children = get all children from $parentid;
$documents = new Array();
foreach $children['id']{
Get the checkboxes from this child
Check if only the $district checkbox is checked
if it is true then fill inn the id in $documents-array
}
echo implode(',',$documents);
This will generate a commaseparated list of documents that only has West checked. And you could use the same snippet for East, North and South.

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OrchardCMS: How to access Content Menu Item boolean field in cshtml view

In orchard, I've added a boolean field called "IsDone" to the built in Content Menu Item content part via that Admin interface. I've then picked an item in Navigation and set the option to "yes" for the corresponding field i added.
In my custom theme, I've copied over MenuItem.cshtml.
How would I get the value of my custom "IsDone" field here?
I've tried something like
dynamic item = Model.ContentItem;
var myValue = item.MenuItem.IsDone.Value;
but I'm pretty sure my syntax is incorrect (because i get null binding errors at runtime).
thanks in advance!
First i suggest you use the shape alternate MenuItemLink-ContentMenuItem.cshtml instead of MenuItem.cshtml to target the content menu item directly.
Secondly, the field is attached to the ContentPart of the menu item. The following code retrieves the boolean field from this content part:
#using Orchard.ContentManagement;
#using System.Linq;
#{
Orchard.ContentManagement.ContentItem lContentItem = Model.Content.ContentItem;
var lBooleanField = lContentItem
.Parts
.Where(p => p.PartDefinition.Name == "ContentMenuItem") // *1
.SelectMany(p => p.Fields.Where(f => f.Name == "IsDone"))
.FirstOrDefault() as Orchard.Fields.Fields.BooleanField;
if (lBooleanField != null)
{
bool? v = lBooleanField.Value;
if (v.HasValue)
{
if (v.Value)
{
#("done")
}
else
{
#("not done")
}
}
else
{
#("not done")
}
}
}
*1
Sadly you cannot simply write lContentItem.As<Orchard.ContentManagement.ContentPart>() here as the first part in the part list is derived from this type, thus you would receive the wrong part.
While #ViRuSTriNiTy's answer is probably correct, it doesn't take advantage of the power of the dynamic objects that Orchard provides.
This is working for me but is a much shorter version:
#Model.Text
#{
bool? IsDone = Model.Content.ContentMenuItem.IsDone.Value;
var IsItDoneThough = (IsDone.HasValue ? IsDone.Value : false);
}
<p>Is it done? #IsItDoneThough</p>
You can see that in the first line I pull in the IsDone field using the dynamic nature of the Model.
For some reason (I'm sure there is a good one somewhere) the BooleanField uses a bool? as its backing value. This means that if you create the new menu item and just leave the checkbox blank it will be null when you query it. After you have saved it as checked it will be true and then if you go back and uncheck it then it will have the value false.
The second line that I've provided IsItDoneThough checks if it has a value yet. If it does then it uses that, otherwise it assumes it to be false.
Shape Alternate
#ViRuSTriNiTy's other advice, to change it to use the MenuItemLink-ContentMenuItem.cshtml instead of MenuItem.cshtml is also important.
The field doesn't exist on other menu items so it will crash if you try to access it. Just rename the .cshtml file to fix this.
Dynamic Model
Just to wrap this up with a little bit of insight as to how I got there (I'm still learning this as well) the way I figured it out is as follows:
.Content is a way of casting the current content item to dynamic, so you can use the dynamic advantages with the rest of line;
When you add the field in the admin panel it looks like it should be right there on the ContentItem, however it actually creates an invisible ContentPart to contain them and calls it whatever the ContentItem's type is.
So if you had added this field to a Page content type you would have used Model.Content.Page.IsDone.Value. If you had made a new content type called banana it would be Model.Content.Banana.IsDone.Value, etc.
Once you are inside the "invisible" part which holds the fields you can finally get at IsDone. This won't give you the actual value yet though. Each Field has its own properties which you can look up in the source code. the IsDone is actually a BooleanField and it exposes its data via the Value property.
Try doing a solution-wide search for : ContentField to see the classes for each of the fields you have available.
Hopefully this will have explained things clearly but I have actually written about using fields in a blog post and as part of my getting started with modules course over on the official docs (its way down in part 3 if you're curious).
Using built-in features instead of IsDone
This seems like a strange approach to do it this way. If you have a Content Item like a Page then you can just use the "Show on a menu" setting on the page.
Go to admin > content > open the page > down near the bottom you will find "Show on a menu":
This will automatically put it into your navigation and then you can move it around to where you want:
After it "IsDone" you can just go back and untick the "Show on a menu" option.
Setting up the alternative .cshtml
To clarify your comments about how to use the alternative, you need to
Copy the file you have at Orchard.Core/Shapes/Views/MenuItem.cshtml over to your theme's view folder so its /Views/MenuItem.cshtml
Rename the copy in your theme to MenuItem-ContentMenuItem.cshtml
Delete probably everything in it and paste in my sample at the start of this post. You don't want most of the original MenuItem.cshtml code in there as it is doing some special tricks to change itself into a different shape which isn't what you want.
Reset your original Orchard.Core/Shapes/Views/MenuItem.cshtml back to the factory default, grab it from the official Orchard repository
Understanding the view names
From your comments you asked about creating more specific views (known as alternates). You can use something call the Shape Tracer to view these. The name of them follows a certain pattern which makes them more and more specific.
You can learn about the alternates on the official docs site:
Accessing and Rendering Shapes
Alternates
To figure out what shape is being used and what alternates are available you can use the shape tracing module which is documented here:
Getting Started with Shape Tracing

Adding position to nodes in view results

In Drupal 8 I have a view that shows nodes in the result. What I need is to know the order that each node has in the results list. In other words: if my node template only shows titles of those nodes.
What i need to get is something like:
1 | The title of one node
2 | The title of some other node
etc.
I was thinking of making an override of the views-view-unformatted.html.twig. There, I can work with the loop, but how can I have the index of the loop in the node templates?
Don't really think you have to override anything here. You can create a new view mode for your node, e.g. teaser and manage its display using Display Suite.
Afterwards you can select rendered entity to show in your view and the corresponding view mode.
just play with the sort criteria of your view
it is all configurable in the back-office
/admin/structure/views/view/name_of_our_view
IMHO loop in Twig is good solution, but in order to add numbers to your node titles you can change format to HTML List.
In format section choose HTML List, save, then click on Settings and choose "Ordered List"
The result should be similar to this:

How to create a NotesRichtext item that is computed for display?

I know this is a common problem, and I tried a few solutions already, but the problem I have right now with my current code is that even though the attachments show in the computed for display field, I get the error "Note Item not Found" when I try to open them.
The form is built with two fields, in a programmable table that displays the editable one or the computed for display one.
The trick I found with Google's help was to delete the computed for display item in the queryopen event, so Notes regenerates the cfd item when opening the document. Visually, this works, as I see the text and attachments, but the attachments can't be opened.
Here is the code that removes the item in the QueryOpen of the form:
...
Set item = doc.GetFirstItem("dspDescription")
If Not item Is Nothing Then Call item.Remove()
...
Has anyone successfully achieved that functionality? Is there another way of doing this? I already tried with subforms, and because of the way the application is built, I need to be able to switch from editable to read only on the flick of a radio button, so subforms are out of the question as they can't be displayed dynamically.
Why don't you simple put the richtext item in a controlled access section and make that section editable / not editable with a computed for display formula. Select "always expand" and hide the section title, so that nobody can collapse it, et voila.
Regarding your comment: With this properties:
for this section in designer:
You get this result:
You see: No twisty, no "visible" section

Lightswitch Search screen - choosing what you can search by

I have a search screen which shows results from a 'projects' entity. One of the fields is a link to a 'Clients' entity, which has a client name.
I can use the search box above the data to search by project name, date, etc but I cannot search by client name. i guess because it is actually a reference to a seperate entity.
How can i make it so that I can search for projects, using the search box, by client name?
To try to explain clearer here is the database layout.
Project
------
ProjName
ProjType
ProjComment
Client --------------- Client
-----
Name
Address
I can search by the project fields, but not the client name.
Create a custom query for Project entity and add optional parameters for all the Project and Client properties that you wish to search for. Wire up the custom query filter.
For full control do not wire up the custom query filter, instead filter in code behind, the PreProcess event.
if your using the HTML Client it can be done as follows on a browse screen associated with in your case the Project Table. if you look at the left navigation bar, click on edit query and within here, you can see 3 options, Filter, Sort and Parameters.
Filter should say Client.Name based on your table structure, the second should be changed to "contains", the 3rd should be set as parameter and finally the 4th box is where you create the new parameter you are going to use as a search box...
you can rename the Parameter at the bottom and I always find its best when on this, to set it as optional in the bottom right property box. (This means all the data will be displayed rather than nothing until searched)
Now if you were to go back to your main screen page, drag this parameter from the left onto the main screen page and set it as a text box. Using this and pressing enter after you have typed something will display the results that match what you have typed so far.
a little more to the above, if you were to click "Edit PostRender Code" and add the below then after 3 characters are entered, the table list your searching through will be updated automatically after each finger stroke...
$searchBox = $("input", $(element));
setTimeout(function () {
$searchBox.focus();
}, 1);
onInputAsYouType(element, 1, function (text) {
contentItem.screen.[CREATED PARAM NAME] = text; //SearchText here is the data item in the screen designer linked to the query parameter
});
function onInputAsYouType(element, numberOfRequiredChars, done) {
var inputbox = $("input", $(element));
inputbox.on("input", function (e) {
var text = $(this).val();
if (text.length >= numberOfRequiredChars)
done(text);
});
};
};

Hide CRM form left hand side navigation item

I have my account entity linked to a custom entity called inspections, I only want these inspections to be created for accounts of a certain type. So when it isn't that type I want the left hand navigation to this entity to be hidden away. I've seen some code that says will hide it away, as long as you have the navID of the item.
I've had a crack at hiding it using what i thought could be the ID but it hasn't worked, so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get this ID, or if there is another way to do this?
The code I'm using to hide the navigation is below:
var navitem = Xrm.Page.ui.navigation.items.get("nav_ts_inspection");
if (navitem != null)
{
navitem.setVisible(false);
}
Load the form
Press F12 to show IE Developer's Toolbar
From here you can use CTRL+F to search for the display name of the item you'd like to hide. This will give you a link that is generated. The Id of this element is what you need to use to show/hide the link.
As an example, you can see results of searching for 'Sub Accounts' on the Account screen for an installation I am working on at the moment. The Id can be seen and is 'navSubAct'
Changes by traversing DOM and manually hide an area is not officially supported.
Luckily if you are on CRM 2011, you can go to
Settings > Customization Or open the solution.
Select the entity > Forms. Inside the Form editor window, open the Form Properties of the entity.
Go to Display Tab and untick "Show navigation items" checkbox.
Finally do not forget to Publish your changes.
Use the relationshipname to hide folder in navigation like this:
If you have folder with the relationship name: ts_inspection
Use this for ID: navts_inspection
So otherwise the same as above, but lose the extra underscore (_) between nav and ts.
var navitem = Xrm.Page.ui.navigation.items.get("navts_inspection");
If you want to hide particular navigation section from the FORM then remove all the links from that section and publish it. That section will not be visible anymore.
If you want to just remove Navigation Pane from FORM, then go to 'Display' tab of form and mark as 'Do Not Show' and then publish it.

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