migxLoopCollection output to individual field placeholders?

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Is there a way to have one migxLoopCollection call but output the results by the individual fields in their own placeholders instead of one template chunk?

For example if I have a members TV with fields like name, age, phone, email, etc., how can I do something like this:

[[migxLoopCollection? 
  &packageName=`members` 
  &classname=`Member` 
  &where=`{"id": "[[+memberId]]"}`]]

[[+member.name]]
[[+member.age]]


// instead of:

[[migxLoopCollection? 
  &packageName=`members` 
  &classname=`Member` 
  &tpl=`@CODE:[[+name]]`
  &where=`{"id": "[[+memberId]]"}`]]

[[migxLoopCollection? 
  &packageName=`members` 
  &classname=`Member` 
  &tpl=`@CODE:[[+age]]`
  &where=`{"id": "[[+memberId]]"}`]]

I saw there is quite a few renderOutput - properties but unfortunately not much of an explanation on how to use them and as some of them are very familiar, I couldn’t figure out if one of the others was doing what I need.

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I believe if you use the property toPlaceholders

[[migxLoopCollection?
      ...
      &toPlaceholders=`member`
]]

you should be able to use the placeholders [[+member.name]] or [[+member.age]].

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That seems to work in general, although I have this TV nested inside a regular migx TV categories and starting with the second instance of that, the displayed values of the members are wrong, despite the right IDs are getting called for.

[{
  "caption": "Categories",
  "fields": [{
    "field": "category",
    "caption": "Category"
    },
    {
    "field": "memberlist",
    "caption": "Member",
    "inputTV": "member"    // migxdb config tv
    }
  ]
}]


Output:
[[+member.name]] ([[+memberId]])

Category A
- Member Joe (1)    // correct
- Member Jane (3)    // correct
- Member Tom (7)    // correct

Category B
- Member Tom (2)    // wrong name, right ID
- Member Tom (5)    // wrong name, right ID
- Member Tom (4)    // correct

Whenever I duplicate a category, all new entry names will be the one from the last entry of the previous category, although if I change the order or remove and add members after that, it will switch up, so I couldn’t find a totally consistent pattern here.

I suspect the placeholders must be interacting with each other across the individual category instances?

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I’m struggling to understand how exactly you are outputting your data.
Can you provide this information?

In my view, it’s probably simpler to create a custom snippet than trying to combine getImageList and
migxLoopCollection and guessing how they work.

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I think, this has todo, how MODX tags are parsed.
If a tag is parsed once within a request, the same tag with the same footprint will allways return the same (first) output.

You will need to set different placeholders for each loop within the migxLoopCollection - call. Maybe try &toPlaceholders=`member[[+id]]` and [[+member[[+id]].name]]

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That’s what I suspected as well.

That’s a great idea, it work but you have to use [[+idx]].

Thanks a lot for all your help!

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