I think that having a panel in the admin panel that can help to create multiple menus for use with navigation on different pages on different parts of the site would be very helpful. And it will generate the code that you insert into you’re page or template.
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Can you give a specific example of what you’d like to see, please? That’s a pretty broad statement to say the least. What would it do that a properly crafted DropMenu call wouldn’t accomplish?
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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It would just make it eaiser to do the DropMenu call and it will edit it for you etc. you can edit the menu whenever and it will be easy.
I believe he is referring to MODx having a DropMenu call generator where you fill in some blanks and click on the items you want in the menu and volia-- a DropMenu call.
mm than I would like to see a eForm call generator and a Ditto generator (that also generates templates and css code to)
and mabe a css gener...
Dim
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How about a web page generator? Just imagine what you would like and *poof* there it is! Well, if they can
fly jets with rat brains, why not?
hmmm, I don’t think this request is that over board.
I remember a One great lady over in the perl world (working with dbman back then) who had a private page that would do something similar for building your database (flatfile).
so folks, let’s start thinking the ModX 101 ways !
Tangent-Warrior
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I had a similar feeling about this reading it before I slept, and after sleeping on it, I do still agree this is something that should eventually happen. Wizards, as I have always called them, are great product features to provide less technical interfaces to end users who don’t have the technical know-how to use all the power of a particular product feature. But, if you are looking at me (or any of the others who volunteer their contributions here) to build you a wizard so you don’t have to do your homework, or call me to properly configure a DropMenu snippet to work in conjunction with the complex site structure, SEO decisions, CSS styling, and the number of other important aspects of serious site building, then I think you’ll be disappointed. Obviously, we want to work towards making things easier to use, but I contribute to this project so I have the tools I need to do my daily job, which is build and maintain web sites for people that pay me to.
The best way to get wizard interfaces is to sponsor development of such things privately. Then you can decide if you want to share this investment back with the community so everyone can benefit, the way our project team does by contributing code on a regular basis. This sharing and commoditization of product features is what the open source spirit is all-about; you don’t have to be a developer to contribute to the efforts.
