@donshakespeare
Exactly! unfortunate that the Extra is not advertised all over MODX website/forum/slack.
That new user has already pointed out the massive hole we've all been staring at.
Hopefully MODX3 will cover it up by integrating that Extra into its core, or at least making the Extra more public
I remember seeing some early designs of the new MODX dashboard that had an "Update MODX" widget built in. We should ask @gpsietzema why this idea was dropped.
https://modx3.org/uploads/images/updates/week-9/modx3.png
New Resource Layout
I've been testing MODX 3 as much as time permits using both the regular build available from
https://modx3.org/project-statement and from the 3.x branch on github.
I'm happy and excited apart from where MODX 3 presumes you use MODX in a particular way. Such as the new resource layout I posted about here:
https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/issues/13968
We love MODX because it's agnostic (it doesn't dictate how to manage content) and gives you the freedom to change what you want - this particular design update to resources goes against those founding principles.
As an example, I customise the manager so that all unnecessary clutter and fuzz is removed from content editors, so that they can focus on what they do best...generating and editing content.
So in this scenario, when looking at the 3 new side panel regions, I would only have 2 bits of data displayed ("published" and "hide from menus") out of the 9 pieces of new functionality on display, this seems like a great waste of space I can't get rid of.
I don't want to be branded as holding the project back, or not wanting a new modern manager. I'm simply providing feedback and some solutions.
I'm all for the new layout if that appeals to the masses, but please give us the tools, through form customisation, to change the layout back if we need todo so. For example;
- Allow us to move the content field out of the document summary into it's own space
- Allow us to move publishing, template, behaviour in menu panels into tabs or different regions
- Allow the document summary to go full width if we hide publishing, template, behaviour in menu panels into tabs
If you have an opinion about this, I encourage you to leave a comment with a solution:
https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/issues/13968
[ed. note: jonleverrier last edited this post 5 years, 9 months ago.]