Features / Usability

Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties 07 Mar 2017 14:08 GMT-0000 posts: 3665

Your syntax seems correct, I use it all the time.

On your "inside" TRACKERLIST, you may need to include the ignoreRequestItemId option.

See the docs for details.

HTH,

- Rick | My Tiki Blog | My Tiki UserPage

Posted by Loren Maxwell 07 Mar 2017 14:47 GMT-0000 posts: 25

Thanks Rick,

I am viewing the first pretty tracker through a wiki page, so there is no itemId in the URL. Regardless, I tried with ignoreRequestItemId (set both to "y" and "n") but it didn't make any difference.

Here's my actual setup:

1) I have a wiki page for a person. Currently this page only has a trackerlist that shows an infobox based called "Tbox: People" on the view="page" parameter:

{trackerlist trackerId="1" view="page" wiki="Tbox: People"}

The Tbox: People is a pretty tracker.

{$f_itemId}

{$f_itemId}

{trackerlist trackerId="9" filterfield="38" filtervalue="{$f_itemID}"  wiki="Tbox: Coaching Career"}

I get the compiler-type error.of:

trackerlist: Pretty tracker reference "$f_itemId" could not be replaced in plugin "trackerlist".

{$f_itemId}

Posted by Loren Maxwell 07 Mar 2017 14:52 GMT-0000 posts: 25

I should add that when I escape the curly brackets with \{ and \} the error goes away, but it doesn't appear that anything is being shown.

If I remove the filterfield and filter value parameters, then I get the entire list of trackerId 9, which I would expect.

Posted by Loren Maxwell 07 Mar 2017 15:14 GMT-0000 posts: 25

Let me also quickly add that if I hard code the itemId into the outside pretty tracker or the wiki page itself, I get the results I expect.

It appears that only when I reference the {$f_itemId} inside of the trackerlist that I get a problem.

Finally, I've opened up the permissions for the trackers and wiki pages in case you wanted to look at them in closer detail today.

I'll close them off sometime later today, but you can let me know if you have an interest and inclination to look at them later and I can open them up again.

Posted by Loren Maxwell 07 Mar 2017 17:18 GMT-0000 posts: 25

Just a quick update on something else that didn't work:

I turned on the "Wiki Argument Variables" and tried to use , "", "\pageid\}}" , etc., but with no results.

I still believe the issue is in trying to parse inside the trackerlist command.

I open to (hoping for) any additional thoughts.

Posted by Loren Maxwell 08 Mar 2017 11:47 GMT-0000 posts: 25

After playing around with this for a while I've concluded there is a bug that prevents {$f_itemId} from being inserted into trackerlist filtervalue parameter. I can successfully insert {$f_xx} where xx is a field Id, and I can even insert page and the like with double curly brackets, but for some reason {$f_itemId} creates an error.

In fact, none of the following tracker "metadata" can be inserted as a parameter into a trackerlist inside of a pretty tracker:
{$f_created}: created date
{$f_status_input}: status input field
{$f_status}: status (output)
{$f_itemId}: the item id
{$f_lastmodif}: last modified date (this will display unix date, for human readable date look below)
{$itemoff}: the iteration number of each item
{$tr_offset}: the offset of the item, i.e. this is the nth item of the total number of x items

Here are some similar past discussions on this same subject (nested pretty trackers):
https://tiki.org/forumthread61654
https://tiki.org/forumthread60207
http://tikiwiki.1073613.n5.nabble.com/Nested-trackerlists-td18465.html

I'd be willing to look at the code, but I have no idea where to even start . . .

Anyway, I would imagine it's a simple fix but it would open up a world of possibilities with nested pretty trackers inside of wiki pages.

Again, any thoughts would be appreciated.