Using the full Search page (which can be added to the menu if it isn't there) you can right-click on the found resource to open it for editing. Check the Settings tab to see its Parent. It is awkward, since if it's nested deeply in the tree you'll have to open that parent to find its parent, etc...
It would be nice if, when a resource is opened for editing by any means, it was also highlighted in the Tree, with its branch being opened to show it if necessary. But I'm not even sure if that is possible, and it would certainly take some fancy javascript DOM manipulation if it is.
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Unless things have changed, you can't search by ID, only by pagetitle (or, I think, alias).
If you install the full Search feature in the menu, you can search by quite a lot of fields. It's still there, it's just not in the menu.
You can add it to the Menu by creating a new menu item with the following properties:
Parent: Content
Lexicon Key: search
Description: search_desc
Permission: search
Action: search
Namespace: core
Icon: images/icons/context_view.gif
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Good to know.
I see this is on the Site menu in 2.2. I can't believe I missed it all this time.
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Just saw this, hail to serendipity.
I spend most of my time zooming in and out of the browser in order to view the last item in my long Extras dropdown menu that I can't see the rest of MODx.
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Thanks Susan,
I did see the "Edit" command when right-clicking on the found resource but it didn't occur to me that this would open the page. I suppose I expected a command named "Open", "Go to" or "Open page" etc.
BTW I didn't have to add anything to my menu, the search function was there already.
Bob, you definitely can search on resource ID.
OK, so I can get to the page, now we just need a way to open the tree. As you say Susan, this is awkward. It may require several searches to get to tease out the path to the resource, and then you'll have to write it all down on a piece of paper to remember it!
As for fancy javascript DOM manipulation to open the tree, I would have expected there to be a pretty straightforward function in the tree JS to do this...
I think this would be a good place for some improvement of the modx manager. After all, modx is for developers to create amazingly intuitive websites, so surely it should be the daddy of that and set a good example! ;-)
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Don't forget the "Recently Edited Resources" widget in the dashboard. You can right-click on a resource and edit it. I've never looked for it, but there's probably a way to make the list longer.
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