Preserving QuickEdit access to TVs rendered by Ditto

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[shuriken]

Hi,
I've got a 'Contacts' page which lists several company offices along with their contact info. I've set each info field as a TV so the site owner can easily edit the values, and created each company office as a document, pulled into the contacts page by Ditto.

This means that I can't use QuickEdit on the Contacts page to edit the individual TV values.

The only workaround I can think of is to provide a link to each individual company office document where the logged in user can edit the TVs directly. Is there any way that I can make this link appear only when the content editor is logged in and using QuickEdit? Something that would work like <quickedit:goto[(base_url)][~[+id+]~] /> (I may end up hacking this into quick_edit/output.class.inc.php). I want it to be a button saying 'Edit <company office>'.

I hope I'm not missing something obvious -- I still have a lot to learn about TVs.
Any help appreciated.

[Mark]

Ditto already supports QuickEdit. Just do [+#pagetitle+] for example.

[shuriken]

Thanks Mark. Couldn't find it in the docs.

I also found that [+#tvmy_tv+] did not work, but OTOH the [+tv...+] syntax isn't necessary. Both [+my_tv+] and [+#my_tv+] work fine.

[nate22]

Ditto already supports QuickEdit. Just do [+#pagetitle+] for example.

Where and how do you use [+#pagetitle+] for example?

[sottwell]

In your Ditto view template.

[nate22]

In your Ditto view template.

By Ditto view template, do you meant in the `DittoTemplate` Chunk which gets appended to the Ditto Snippet call (ie. &tpl=`DittoTemplate`)?

[sottwell]

Yes.

[dev_cw]

Is there a way to get <quickedit:someTV /> to work in a Ditto tpl? When I try it it looks for the current document rather than the one referenced by Ditto.

My objective is to add a way for the user to edit a file TV embedded in a ditto tpl. When I use the standard [+#fileTV+] it breaks the "download" link and causes all sorts of havoc to the html making it look sloppy.

Thanks.

[Mark]

No, there is no current way to use <quickedit> tags in Ditto templates. The Quickedit plugin itself would need to change to allow an ID to be passed to it as Ditto only parses for [+#pagetitle+] style placeholders.

[dev_cw]

OK, I will work on an alternative to resolve tis issue. Thanks.

BTW - that was a fast response...talk about great service

[dev_cw]

FYI - I resolved the issue above by using the ManagersOnly snippet and then putting the direct code to open QE for the TV in question like this:

Code:

<a href="[~[*id*]~]?qe_open=true#" onclick="javascript: window.open('[(base_url)]manager/index.php?a=112&id=2&doc=[+id+]&var=DocFIle', 'QuickEditor', 'width=525, height=300, toolbar=0, menubar=0, status=0, alwaysRaised=1, dependent=1');" title="Edit : Download Document" class="QE_Link">&laquo; Edit : Download Document</a>

To change the TV just edit the &var= of the url with the name of your TV. I also edited the title to keep it clean and to the point, but you could also add [+pagetitle+] to the title to make it more descriptive. Humm, this could be made into a nice little snippet as well to make it easy to add QE buttons.

This worked like a charm and I can now add edit links for documents and images directly in my Ditto display without breaking the links. Cool.