I don’t know about others, but my single biggest need for Modx is an array of client-friendly tools. Quickedit is a great start. I’m just wondering what’s ahead for TP4 before I start some hacks. Some of this was sort of covered in the Quickedit thread, but just want to them in one place.
Wishes:
1. More customization for manager menu, especially a way to run a module from it. For example, I created the following simple module to add a job listing page:
$fields=array(
"type"=>"document",
"contentType"=>'text/html',
"pagetitle"=>"New Job",
"longtitle"=>"New Job",
"description"=>"Short description goes here",
"parent"=>25,
"content"=>"Long description goes here",
"richtext"=>1,
"template"=>6,
"searchable"=>1,
"createdby"=>1,
"createdon"=>time()
);
$modx->putIntTableRow($fields, "site_content");
$id=mysql_insert_id();
//header (Location: "http://ccwm.org?id=".$id());
I’d like that to be a menu option in the manager, not require the user to go to Manage Modules and right-click on the module icon. Ideally if I had the 2 wishes below, the user would either be directed to a simplified manager page to edit the content and publish it, or would be directed to the frontend to edit the content then publish the page.
2. Customizeable document editing pages. So I don’t have to explain what an alias is, for example.
3. More frontend page tools--page tree, add, move, publish document. Optionally show unpublished documents to logged in users.
4. A graphical way to handle menu indexes, instead of entering numbers.
5. Drag and drop (sort of) TV-driven snippets. We now have TV’s to pass parameters instead of the old string method. So let’s take it all the way--you drop a snippet in, refresh the doc and a set of fields appears to set the values for the snippet. No more looking in the code to find out how to use it.
I’m guessing you guys are already working on this stuff--yes???
MODX Staff
