Hi,
I don’t know if this has been discussed before (and if I’m sure it has been rejected.
) or if something like this already exists.
At the moment I’m writing a site with MODx and I’ve got lots of Snippets for In/Output of non-standard things like a calendar, contacts database, guestbook.
But it would be much nicer to see all these things as Documents in the Document-Tree instead of having to write a module for managing them.
For example: Let’s assume a Snippet can create a new document type (with an own Icon) - e.g. the calendar:
Instead of having one big text field for the document there is now one Date-Field and a Description-Field for adding events to the calendar.
These events are stored as documents in the doc-tree.
Same for the guestbook: There would be a field for name,email,website,ip,icq,message instead of one big text field.
I would prefer these method for two reasons:
1. I now have to write a lot of modules for handling the input to these snippets.
2. Having them displayed in the Document-Tree is much more obvious and logical for the users.
I attached a fast mockup for demonstration.
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