ModxCMS RTE from the front end?

Hi Guys,

Im very new to this software and I’ve managed to develop a site/template which is populated by the CMS fields. My question is, to edit my website I have got to train my client to go into the backend, i.e. www.domainname.com/manager enter the username and password and they log in. So far so good. They can then search for the page they want to edit, however the problem I find is this editor pane does not reflect what the finished article will look like as for example the the page widths a different so text wrapping and images are awkward to position and guess. I do appreciate the preview button, but is there someway I can allow my user to edit the frontend similar to what "ektron" call incontext editing? Would love to hear your thoughts, its a great little package and Im still learning the ropes, just thought it would be excellent if the editing was a little easier.

Many Thanks

Chaps

Just discovered quickedit, perhaps that’s what I’m looking for now time to look for documentation on how I can activate this in my template

Chaps

NewsPublisher is another option (if you can find it).

Ooh that sounds interesting, will search for it when Im back at home playing with this.Would be interested to see if there were template files which show these features in action? Something I could disect and learn from?

Thanks

Chaps

HI Bob,

Now that I’ve completed my form exactly the way I want it, starting to think of embedding newspublisher into my template so its easy for my client to edit the site. Reading through the tutorial on your website, I notice (perhaps ive misread, its quite late and been working on this for days) there may be some problems with the TinyMCE editor on the front end - but you hope to have addressed it by the time someone reads the tutorial. Is that still the case?

Many Thanks for the your help

Jalz

TBH, I’m not sure. I don’t maintain TinyMCE.

The fix is quite simple -- Bruno17 has posted it here: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,59931.msg343009.html#msg343009.

Thanks Bob for the prompt replies,

Will definitely try it out tonight after work. Lookoing forward to getting it integrated

Hi Bob,

Im obviously doing something wrong here, still learning....end users

Anyway Ive added the following code within the body area of my page:

[[!NewsPublisher@ &show=`pagetitle,longtitle,pub_date,unpub_date,content`]] [[!NpEditThisButton]]

The form does indeed come up, however there is no content in the form. So I am guessing I need to embed the id somehow in the NewsPublisher snippet, but not got any idea how to do this. The form also says

Sorry . . . There were one or more problems in producing the form:
You do not have permission to edit resources containing modx tags.

After reading your tutorial, I added the allow_modx_tags - Policy Template under (Security/Access Controls/Access Policies). I have it enabled...

Any help to get me kick started would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Chaps

Try this (note the question mark):



Actually, you’ll want this, since you have date fields:



The @ sign is for attaching your own property set, in which case you’d want:



You don’t want the NpEditThisButton tag on the NewsPublisher page (it wouldn’t show anyway). It should go on other pages you might want to edit with NewsPublisher, or more often -- in the template.

Hi Bob,

Thankyou, Ive got it working with the second snippet of code - added the parameters I wanted and I can create a new page from the front end successfully .How do I (or can I) edit pages that already exist, things that were created from the manager? Cant seem tp figure this out, I have the [[!NewsPublisher]] snippet code embedded in my template so all pages should be accessible.

Sorry for the embarassing questions.

Chaps