Admin Interface

Hi there,

has anyone ever considered using a pre-built admin interface such as http://www.admintasia.com ?

I’ve just been thinking about this recently and would like to throw it out there for modx revo to maybe partner with a company that specialises in admin interfaces. What do people think?

mmm.. that’s a bunch of open source jquery plugins (nicely..) bundled together for cash. Not exactly the modx-vibe...

for the backend, revolution is already built on Ext JS Library and is quite easily extendable (and actually looks quite the same..).
I can’t imagine modx using a "commercial" bundle of open source code for the manager any time soon

i hear ya, and i agree with you on the avoidance of commercial stuff. I was just browsing around and found it and wondered what people thought (aimed at the pre-built admin interface, not the commercial aspect).

personally, im all for the revo 2 interface -> i’m looking forward to the GA in the hope that the few visual aspects that are not quite to my taste can be fixed. I’m pretty sure that once its available and any bugs are fixed, that i’ll be dedicating time to the admin interface design / tweaks and donating it back to the community.

All I want for Revo interface is good old HTML/CSS to web standards with a very light sprinkling of JS.

Then if people want to create whatever they want, just change the CSS for the admin.

I for one hate the new heavy JS interface - but that is personal taste as I like plain and clean interfaces.

No javascript mean no easy inline edting with all the facilities that Extjs brings, no tree, no window, etc...

More to that, you can customize the CSS of the manager as you want.

Even more, you can easily built your own Manager inteface with less JS as you want, even without Extjs (and why not give it back to the communauty), it’s up to you. You just have to use the proper connectors available.

Package your own interfaces. This is what I am looking forward to tinkering with when I get my current list all tinkered!

This has to be huge selling point for ModX Revo.

Quote from: lossendae at Dec 21, 2009, 03:08 AM

No javascript mean no easy inline edting with all the facilities that Extjs brings, no tree, no window, etc...

More to that, you can customize the CSS of the manager as you want.

Even more, you can easily built your own Manager inteface with less JS as you want, even without Extjs (and why not give it back to the communauty), it’s up to you. You just have to use the proper connectors available.

Easily build your own manager interface? Can you point me to the wiki section where it explains how easy it is and what to look for? Then I will build one and give it back

There are no wiki entry about this subject (yet?)

The backend is built with MODx itself and Smarty as template engine. Extjs use the proper connectors to communicate via Ajax.

Note that if you want to build a manager template without Extjs, while you can rebuild all the default pages with the lib of your choice, you should load the Extjs/MODext header in order to maintain compatibility with 3rd party plugins that are using it.

Jason Coward has talked about this topic on another thread and said that he will, for the example, convert Evolution manager to Revolution. Maybe you should ask about the proper way to do your own.