Custom Field as a trigger

koobs · 2009-02-21 17:01:38

I’m trying to use a technique mentioned by Tim Van Damme to use a custom field as a trigger to load jquery code into certain pages.

The code in the <head> looks like this

<txp:if_individual_article>
	<txp:if_custom_field name="jquery">
		<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
	</txp:if_custom_field>
</txp:if_individual_article>

Apparently you can trigger this custom field – and as a result load the code – by specifying a value in the custom field on the write page. It all sounds nice and streamlined but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work for me.

I am just adding a “1” character to the custom field.

Have I missed something?

thanks for any help

maniqui · 2009-02-21 17:31:11

That should work, can’t see anything wrong with that code.
Have you looked at the output source code of your page to check if <script ...></script> is there when looking at an individual article?

koobs · 2009-02-21 17:48:54

Nothing is outputted.

I’ll try again and check for typos. Is it correct that adding the “1” to the custom field will trigger it?

jstubbs · 2009-02-21 18:03:51

Do you see the <script> tag? If not, then the custom field is not getting triggered. If you see the tag, then jquery is not getting loaded, in which case, check the path to jquery is correct.

redbot · 2009-02-21 18:12:57

Maybe is a silly suggestion but have you tried with

<txp:if_custom_field name="jquery" val="1">

els · 2009-02-21 18:22:21

It might be the – relative – path used in here:

<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

koobs · 2009-02-21 18:40:43

redbot wrote:

Maybe is a silly suggestion but have you tried with

<txp:if_custom_field name="jquery" val="1">

I’ve tried this to no avail. Does it have to be there?

Els wrote:

It might be the – relative – path used in here:

That path was just simplified for the example.

The <script> tag is not output so the custom field is not getting triggered. hmmmn

redbot · 2009-02-21 19:56:49

koobs wrote:

I’ve tried this to no avail. Does it have to be there?

No, it doesen’t I think. Was just to make it sure, sorry.

jstubbs · 2009-02-21 20:18:45

koobs – are you sure your article has a value set in the jquery custom field? And did you run a tag trace?

koobs · 2009-02-21 21:08:35

erm, I’m rather embarrassed to admit it was my own typo, misspelling the class as fancyzooom! Guess I just looked at it so much I didn’t see it.

Sorry for wasting your time.

Thanks for all your assistance

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Custom Field as a trigger

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