Yet another manager usability hack from me. If you’ve ever wanted to modify the MODx Manager homepage, it’s actually quite easy, but I figured I’d document it here in case anybody didn’t know it was a possibility.
Find the appropriate "welcome.html" file for the manager theme you’re using, somewhere in /manager/media/styles/MODxLight/welcome.html.
If you want to hide the tree from your users (on login), add this to the top of your welcome.html:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
// Hide the tree
top.mainMenu.hideTreeFrame();
</script>
Then just add some links to what you want to do. For what I tend to do, it’s adding some "Quick links" to create new documents. Here’s an example with some links to create new documents under some existing parents (modify the PID values accordingly):
<h3>QUICK LINKS:</h3>
<ul style="padding-bottom:30px">
<li><a href="/manager/index.php?a=4&pid=19">Create new PR</a></li>
<li><a href="/manager/index.php?a=72&pid=21">Create new Media Coverage</a></li>
</ul>
Nothing groundbreaking here, but it might be useful to somebody. You could also quite easily add logos (perhaps your company’s logo and your client’s logo), icons, links to TVs or chunks or whatever suits your fancy.
If you’re scratching your head wondering how to find the URLs for the links: load the page as normally in the MODx manager, then (using Firefox) right click on the content area frame and say "This Frame -> Open frame in new tab". Then copy the URL from there.
