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    Hello,
    I am putting together a website for a local school using modx. It has been a great experience!
    In our situation we are going to have a lot of content editors as each teacher will administer their own classroom page. Now my question!

    Since many of our users are not extremely comfortable with technology, I would like to provide a custom "Help" section on the website which addresses only the specific topics I need beginner users to understand, as opposed to the more encompassing Modx help documentation. Unfortunately I cannot figure out a way to have only users logged in with a Manager User account view the help link. It appears that I will have to create an additional Web User to control what content is viewed on the web side, according to this article http://modxcms.com/why-manager-users.html .

    So, does anyone have a suggestion on how to get around making my users logiin twice (Manager user / web user) to see what I want them to see?
    Perhaps I can add content to the manager side that would be a custom help page?

    Thanks for your time in looking at my post!
    Chuck
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      In 0962, you’ll actually be able to have custom help pages (tabbed) in the manager itself! You can see this now by exporting the latest SVN repository for the 096 branch. Custom help pages are very simple to create ... basically static HTML stored on the filesystem, with a tiny manager-check bit of code inserted at the top.
        Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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        THis is what you need to add a tabbed help into your existing manager:
        http://modxcms.com/HelpManager-1794.html

        You will need to write your own documents but the interface will work great.
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          Thanks for pointing that out dev_cw. It’s be a tiny bit extended for 0962, but please know that it’s part of the coming 096x branch update.
            Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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