Menu Tree:Show/not show document ID depending on user?

Quote from: sottwell at Mar 30, 2008, 01:36 PM

The Tree is a bit tricky to work with; that whole list is generated on-the-fly by javascript and AJAX. You won’t catch me trying to mess around with that code. However, I imagine you could specify that the role has to be 1 for that to be displayed, since you can control the display of the entire row according to the groups.

Thanks. That is too advanced for me at this stage - I’ll use the "fix" and come back and look at the issue later if it becomes necessary.

this is an odd topic I must say
what’s the biggy having them there? what about adding links to pages etc?
I don’t think there is a time I login to the manager and don’t need to check this or that docID....
anyway if I were you I’ll keep a good log of the changes you do because you will want to reverse this change soon i believe.

Quote from: sinbad at Mar 30, 2008, 06:11 PM

this is an odd topic I must say
what’s the biggy having them there? what about adding links to pages etc?
I don’t think there is a time I login to the manager and don’t need to check this or that docID....
anyway if I were you I’ll keep a good log of the changes you do because you will want to reverse this change soon i believe.

I don’t see what is so odd about it, obviously.

The need arose, at first, because I have mixed Hebrew and English content on a site I am building (90% Hebrew though), and, if I have the manager set to ltr, the parentheses around the IDs are all weird, one is on one side of the title - it also for some reason makes the clickable area of the titles in the tree smaller.

If I change the text direction to rtl but leave the manager interface in English (which I have to at this stage), then I have other problems with punctuation, etc. (rel="nofollow" looks like "rel="nofollow if I try to add it as a link attribute for a document, for instance). That is the first point.

Secondly, for a "normal user" (not computer or web savvy, just needs a website for business promotion) updating content etc, *I think* the numbers in no apparent order are confusing. And, "normal users" who know nothing about databases, etc will just be creating pages in templates I have set up, and exclusively using TinyMCE - when they create links, they will be using the URL (alias) of the page (eg - /news.html, not [~42~] or whatever - It fits in with the logic of such a user to do it like that.

The combination of these two issues made me ask for a solution.

If I was able to differentiate this display between what I see as administrator, and what content editors see, I would, but I can’t at the moment.

If I was able to differentiate this display between what I see as administrator, and what content editors see, I would, but I can’t at the moment.

That would be a nice feature. As an admin the ids are fundamental, but as an editor they are useless and can be confusing. My users have learned to ignore them, but the interface would be cleaner without them.

Truth is, I wasn’t even able to find which file they were generated from; I just used Firebug to determine the container and figure out how to hide them with CSS. If I could find the code, it would be trivial to add an "if..." condition to output that bit only if the user’s role is 1.

The parentheses and other punctuation in rtl is a problem, though. I’ve seen the same thing in a locally produced Hebrew/English dictionary as well. Tricky business, I suppose.

Quote from: dev_cw at Mar 31, 2008, 05:50 AM

As an admin the ids are fundamental, but as an editor they are useless and can be confusing. My users have learned to ignore them, but the interface would be cleaner without them.

Yes, exactly! Totally useless for a user.

Maybe something like ManagerManager can help:
http://modxcms.com/ManagerManager-1565.html

I’ll check it out this week - it will help with some other things I was looking for in customizing the backend for users - maybe I’ll be able to control display of ID too. Anyone have any experience with this plugin?

The plug-in rocks. But I don’t think it has this feature. In general it manages the content part of the manager interface (if I remember correctly)