Manager: some resource fields appear to be missing (hidden)…Help!

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geordiechris Reply #1, 9 years ago

Hi Folks

I am a newbie to MODX and I've made a start on Bob Ray's book.
On reading the section 'Resource Fields' it seems to me that several are missing
in my dummy site manager; namely "Class Key", "Created On", "Edited on" and "Deleted on".
I have tried various suggestions to remedy this:
Emptying "core/cache" and re-logging in.
Uncompressing js and css.
Unpublishing 'Articles'.
and several other 'long-shots'.
I have worked out a fair bit about the manager but I cannot seem to find any decent comparison
of the latest version and previous ones in terms of what fields are (still) available and their (potentially new) location.
or that what Bob is referring to actually even still exists in the latest manager.
This is not a project-critical issue, but rather a learning one.

I'm using:
MODX 2.3.3
MAMP (latest (3.0.7.3))
PHP (5.5.18)
MySQL (5.5.38)
Chrome: Std and Canary (latest versions)…(although, again as suggested, I have tried other browsers)
Mac OX (Lion-10.7.5)

Any guidance would be much appreciated
Kind Regards
Chris Ray

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BobRay Reply #2, 9 years ago

Thanks for buying my book.

Yes, the MODX Manager is constantly changing, and not all resource fields show in the Manager.

createdon, editedon, and deletedon were never directly visible. They're set automatically and kept in the database.

class_key is sort of visible as "Resource Type" on the "Settings Tab" when editing a resource.

All of them are visible (along with all other resource fields and TV values) through tags. If you put these tags on a page, you'll see them:

<p>Class Key: [[*class_key]]  </p>
<p>Created On: [[*createdon]]  </p>
<p>Edited On: [[*editedon]]  </p>
<p>Deleted on: [[*deletedon]]  </p>

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geordiechris Reply #3, 9 years ago

Hi Bob

Thanks for the prompt and most helpful response.
btw the book's a winner thus far.

Regards
Chris

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