Reading TV Values from Another Resource in Evolution CMS

Several reliable ways to pull TV data from a known resource and reuse it in the current template without duplicating content manually.

Sometimes a template needs to reuse a TV from another resource: an image, a short text block, a product badge, or a shared promo panel. In Evolution CMS this is completely normal, but it is better to fetch the value explicitly than to duplicate content by hand.

Typical Pattern

If you already know the source resource ID and TV name, use a helper that can read the field directly.

[[DocInfo?
  &docid=`123`
  &field=`image`
]]

[[DocInfo?
  &docid=`123`
  &field=`text`
]]

If many pages constantly read many TVs from many other resources, move the assembly logic into a snippet so the markup stays clean.

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