Event 'onManagerHomeRender' + 'onBeforeManagerHomeRender'

One of the things I think is missing in the manager is a way to allow for including add-on information on the Manager home page. It would be very cool to have a plugin event to allow ’widgets’ to be built for the home page...stuff like an interface with JoCo (latest comments since last visit), site stats, or any other type of info that would be nice to have on login. Or a method for creating a custom home without needing to edit the theme.

To do this now we need to edit the welcome page (which is html). We can add function to the welcome page by editing the welcome.static.php but that is hacking and should not be necessary with MODx

This would provide a simple way of expanding the manager home into more of a dashboard. I haven’t checked to see if Revo has this already but it would be a great feature IMO.

Well that was easy enough to get working...just added a new event in the modx_system_eventnames table, then added $modx->invokeEvent(’OnRenderWelcome’); to welcome.static.php, and in the plugin listening to this event use setPlaceholder(’placeholderName’, ’value’); to create a placeholder...then in the welcome.html add the placeholder where you want the display to be.

Now you can add customization to your welcome page via a plugin.

Jira that!

http://svn.modxcms.com/jira/browse/MODX-867

Shane, could you by chance create a patch for the current SVN and attach it to that issue? I think this could make for a great addition for Evo 1.0.

I really do need to learn how to make a patch...

I am messing around with the concept to see where the best place to add the output on the welcome page (or have more than one option). As soon as I have a working proof of concept I will post it for input.

This may not make it to 1.0 but maybe 1.0.1

Great idea Shane! cant wait to try it in the Evo .

Thanks, keep up the great work.

Quote from: dev_cw at Jul 02, 2009, 01:16 PM

I really do need to learn how to make a patch...

I am messing around with the concept to see where the best place to add the output on the welcome page (or have more than one option). As soon as I have a working proof of concept I will post it for input.

This may not make it to 1.0 but maybe 1.0.1

Patching is really pretty simple. You’d want to grab a current SVN export to a directory named "evorc" (or whatever). Dupe the export to a new directory ("evorc-mine"), then make the change. Then you’d run a command life unix Diff program like follows:


This will create the file "mgrLoginDashboard.patch" containing your changes in unified context diff format. (See Diff, Patch, and Friends: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1237) The options are as follows:
[*] -u -U NUM --unified[=NUM] Output NUM (default 3) lines of unified context.
[*] -a --text Treat all files as text.
[*] -r --recursive Recursively compare any subdirectories found.
[*] -N --new-file Treat absent files as empty.


We just need the framework in place, not the plugin.

Thanks...I will learn how to patch and provide the files over the weekend. Will also need to edit the installer to include the new events in the db.

FYI, if you have Eclipse (with the Subclipse plugin) - it’s a piece of cake to create patches from your local checkout against the repository head revision. It really is quite simple