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Listing Template Variables by Category with a Reusable tvs Snippet
Large resource templates often need a clean way to output template variables without hard-coding every field. The legacy tvs helper behind this topic solved that by selecting TVs by category and rendering only the fields
Large resource templates often need a clean way to output template variables without hard-coding every field. The legacy tvs helper behind this topic solved that by selecting TVs by category and rendering only the fields that should appear.
What It Was Designed To Do
- read TVs by category
- exclude specific TV names
- skip empty values when needed
- render everything through one reusable chunk
Why This Pattern Is Useful
Once TV output becomes dynamic, catalog and profile pages get much easier to maintain. Editors can add fields in the manager while templates stay lean.
The deeper principle still holds for modern projects: if a page type relies on many optional attributes, build one presentation helper instead of scattering conditional TV checks throughout every chunk.
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