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What's the right way to use maxvalues in a template?

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daddydave:
I'm starting to piddle around a little with templates. I am trying to get a template to display only the first 3 actors for the movie but it is displaying the whole list. I must have something wrong.

--- Code: ---{%value=actors maxvalues="3"}
--- End code ---

The whole line for that is:

--- Code: ---<p><strong>(IMDB Rating:{%value=imdbrating}) Actors: {%value=actors maxvalues="3"}  Director: {%value=directors maxvalues="1"}</strong> {%value=description} </p>
--- End code ---

nostra:
You need to create a separate template file for the values and then use the following syntax in main template:

--- Code: ---{%value=actors template="pages\actor.ptm" maxvalues="3"}
--- End code ---

daddydave:
Thanks, nostra!

daddydave:
One other thing, I was going to try to figure out this on my own using the existing templates as examples, but I am quite stumped.

I got it to work just as you said above using a subtemplate if the subtemplate contains only {%value} but this smashes the list of actor names up together without spaces. And if I do so much as put a comma to the right, I end up seeing the actual code {%value} in the output (along with the comma). I tried putting in some things in the main template as well, but without really understanding. So my new question is: is there an easy way to make it show commas in between the names?

Thanks again for all advice.

BTW I have noticed for a while that I have some of the ptm files from Plugins\Templates folder duplicated in Plugins folder itself. Is this normal or did I screw something up downloading extra templates from the forum into the wrong folder?

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---BTW I have noticed for a while that I have some of the ptm files from Plugins\Templates folder duplicated in Plugins folder itself. Is this normal or did I screw something up downloading extra templates from the forum into the wrong folder?
--- End quote ---

I noticed the same thing recently, and wondered how I managed to do that. I wonder if the automatic updater put them there.

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