NewsManager

Hi zi,

Sorry for the late reply, If you need assistance it’s ok. Can You give me more details (snippet call, tv setup, etc..)?

Regards,

Ronald

Quote from: zi at Nov 04, 2006, 10:35 AM

Hi tfd,

I spent all day to make this thing work in 095 rev1817. I want to use TVs inside it, but I tried everything I can and could not get it to work.

Followed all steps in the documentation, (a dozen times .. )

can you assist me in this regard?

I’ll appreciate it a lot!

regards.

zi

Thanks tfd, I came to know that this does not support TVs, e.g. I wanted to give websuers ability to post events which contains 7 TVs.

So for now I created the old fashioned way with manager users.

But is that possible what I said above?

regards.

zi

Hi,

I’m new to modx so I need some more explaination:
- You want to put tv’s in the contents of the post? If this is the case why does [*tvname*] in the contents doesn’t work?
- Or you want to take the contents from several tv’s and put that in the events posts?
- Or you want to change the contents of the tv’s? So you can use the TV’s elsewhere on the site to display the events in a nice format? This is actually not possible, but I’m working on it.

Regards,

Ronald

Quote from: zi at Nov 06, 2006, 06:33 AM

Thanks tfd, I came to know that this does not support TVs, e.g. I wanted to give websuers ability to post events which contains 7 TVs.

But is that possible what I said above?

regards.

zi

- Or you want to change the contents of the tv’s? So you can use the TV’s elsewhere on the site to display the events in a nice format? This is actually not possible, but I’m working on it.

Just like we edit a document in Manager with Manager user rights.

I have another thing in my mind, I am using NewsEditor to post a traditional news content on a site, (it uses document’s native fields, no TV), but I am unable to find anything with which I can tell NE to save the document in specific document group. It just saves the document as a public access in Manager, you got my point? if you can add it to it?

Moreover, how can I enable RTE on [+content+]?

regards,

zi

The more I think about NewsManager and the "bigger picture" approach to many of the MODx snippets, it really seems like what is needed is a configurable content editor.... whether that content is news, products, blogs, whatever... we’re really just talking about a front end content manager.

I’ve been struggling for several days now to add TVs to the NewsEditor. I’ve got them editable nicely in creating new documents, but still having a problem in updating them when editing an existing document.

Quote from: identity at Nov 08, 2006, 06:40 PM

The more I think about NewsManager and the "bigger picture" approach to many of the MODx snippets, it really seems like what is needed is a configurable content editor.... whether that content is news, products, blogs, whatever... we’re really just talking about a front end content manager.

To bring in the bigger picture of the planned future of MODx, the manager will pretty much become a MODx-powered site itself, and you’ll be able to have multiple managers, so the front-end / back-end distinction can be blurred. You could end up with a Blog Manager that looked just like the main site. Now, this does not negate the work being done here, having manager functions as snippets means that multiple competing functions with different workflow goals is a good thing - more choice. And I’m sure the experiences here will be taken into account for the new manager. But if, like Zi, you are wanting an exact replica of the Manager in the frontend, then it would seem best to wait until the Manager is converted to snippets.

I’m bringing over a design into a fresh install of 0.9.5 RC2 and in doing so, have primarily copied and pasted the snippets from the earlier 0.9.2.1 site... both are demo sites I have been working on.

The problem is, when initially created, links to it are showing up as site.com/24 where 24 is the document id, rather than site.com/news/archive/article-123456789

However, if I go into the document from the admin side and save it, it then shows up okay with the correct links.

So I’m trying to figure out if this is just something with my setup or something going on with the snippets in the RC2 version.

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this?

I’m still getting new docs created in the NewsEditor using the doc ID instead of the alias until the doc is saved in the manager, at which point it shows up fine.

Okay, through some experimentation and lots of frustration... haven’t figured it out, but have discovered some interesting things...

After creating a blog entry or a news story... both using NewsEditor, it is still just appending the raw id to the end of the domain... something.com/32. After I edit and save a file in the manager, any file, doesn’t even have to be the blog or news story, and then refresh the front end, the proper URL shows for the blog entry or news item... something.com/blog/article-1164680020

But I’m no closer to figuring out the cause..... open for any ideas! :’( :’(