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Wrapping Every Three Ditto Items for a Carousel Layout
Carousel markup usually needs grouped output, so treat every third Ditto item as a boundary for opening and closing the wrapper block.
This donor is the three-item version of the same grouping problem teams often hit with Ditto. Instead of a flat item list, the output needs to be grouped into slides or rows, each containing up to three entries.
Typical strategy
Use ditto_iteration or an equivalent iteration placeholder to detect each third item and wrap the group accordingly.
[[if? &is=`[+ditto_iteration+]:%:3` &math=`on` &then=`...`]]Edge case
The last wrapper still needs to close correctly even when the final group contains only one or two items. That is why grouped Ditto layouts often become easier to manage through a helper snippet once the markup gets more complex.
Working with Checkbox Inputs in eForm
Checkboxes in eForm need explicit handling because an unchecked box sends nothing, while a checked one sends a value that still must pass validation.
Using a TV Value as the documents Source for Ditto
When a TV stores a comma-separated list of resource IDs, Ditto can use it as the source list — but you need to read the TV from the correct document first.