Summary Field

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AMDbuilder Reply #1, 17 years, 9 months ago

Hello,

I’m trying to use wayfinder to create a section guide on a site, but ran into a snag... Weblinks don’t have the Summary (introtext) field that I have been using to create text for the guides. Is there any drawback to using the description field to hold say 4 sentences of text?

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dev_cw Reply #2, 17 years, 9 months ago

I thought that had been changed a while back. The introtext field is available just not included. It is an easy modification to make it available (I have done it before as a test but will need to look for my notes). Maybe if we add this to Jira it will make it’s way into official release.

Another option is to use a TV for the summary. Weblinks are allowed templates so TVs will work. If you are already using the summary field throughout your site and are comited, you can toss in a bit of logic (PHx or snippet) to "if no summary text use tv value" for the weblinks, or maybe even better "if type is weblink get TV value, else get introtext".

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AMDbuilder Reply #3, 17 years, 9 months ago

Hello,

It would be great to have this added to an official release, but in the mean time do you know how I could add it now? I will make a note in Jira in the near future.

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BobRay Reply #4, 17 years, 9 months ago

Quote from: AMDbuilder at Jan 09, 2009, 09:15 PM

Is there any drawback to using the description field to hold say 4 sentences of text?

The description field is varchar (255), so you could easily run out of room there. The introtext field is set to "text" so it would hold anything you’d be likely to throw at it.

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AMDbuilder Reply #5, 17 years, 9 months ago

That’s what I figured, so I guess it comes back to getting the summary field to show up for weblinks.

Any suggestions on that front?
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BobRay Reply #6, 17 years, 9 months ago

I think I found where it would go, but please be aware that I’m making this up as I go along. wink

In the file manager/actions/mutate_content.dynamic.php around line 580 (I think this is MODx 0.9.2, so it might not be the same if you’ve upgraded).

<?php if($content['type']=="reference" || $_REQUEST['a']==72) { ?>

I believe the code following that is the display for weblinks. The "else" statement below that is for regular documents.

Be sure to back up that file before playing around!

One thing to try would be to just change that if statement to if(false). Then weblinks should be treated as regular documents and you’d get all the fields. A trickier fix would be to edit that first section to add the summary/introtext field based on what’s in the "else" section.

In either case, I don’t know if the summary/introtext field would be saved or what kind of side effects this might have, so be sure to test it very thoroughly on a sandbox site.

This would be *way* easier in Revolution. wink

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dev_cw Reply #7, 17 years, 9 months ago

One thing to try would be to just change that if statement to if(false). Then weblinks should be treated as regular documents and you’d get all the fields. A trickier fix would be to edit that first section to add the summary/introtext field based on what’s in the "else" section.

I think that if you remove the else statement the link tree will show in the standard documents.

I copied the introtext part from the else statement (it is the entire else statement) and added it directly above the weblink selector (after the closing ?> tags after the // Web Link specific comment). Tested and it worked perfect saved and returned the data as expected.

	// Web Link specific
?>			<tr style="height: 24px;"><td valign="top" width="100" align="left"><span class="warning"><?php echo $_lang['document_summary']?></span></td>
				<td valign="top"><textarea name="introtext" class="inputBox" rows="3" style="width:300px;" onchange="documentDirty=true;"><?php echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($content['introtext']))?></textarea>
				  <img src="media/style/<?php echo $manager_theme?>images/icons/b02_trans.gif" onmouseover="this.src='media/style/<?php echo $manager_theme?>images/icons/b02.gif';" onmouseout="this.src='media/style/<?php echo $manager_theme?>images/icons/b02_trans.gif';" alt="<?php echo $_lang['document_summary_help']?>" onclick="alert(this.alt);" style="cursor:help;" spellcheck="true"/></td></tr>
			<tr style="height: 24px;"><td><span class="warning"><?php echo $_lang['weblink']?></span> <img name="llock" src="media/style/<?php echo $manager_theme?>images/tree/folder.gif" width="18" height="18" onclick="enableLinkSelection(!allowLinkSelection);" style="cursor:pointer;" /></td>
				<td><input name="ta" type="text" maxlength="255" value="<?php echo !empty($content['content']) ? stripslashes($content['content']) : "http://"?>" class="inputBox" style="width:300px;" onchange="documentDirty=true;" />
				  <img src="media/style/<?php echo $manager_theme?>images/icons/b02_trans.gif" onmouseover="this.src='media/style/<?php echo $manager_theme?>images/icons/b02.gif';" onmouseout="this.src='media/style/<?php echo $manager_theme?>images/icons/b02_trans.gif';" alt="<?php echo $_lang['document_weblink_help']?>" onclick="alert(this.alt);" style="cursor:help;" /></td></tr>
<?php } else {
	// Document specific

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BobRay Reply #8, 17 years, 9 months ago

I think you’re right. That looks like a good solution.

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