Frontpage and user permissions
I did find the user guide for Frontpage plugin on my site, after having installed and activated the plugin, in this folder; assets/components/frontpage/docs.
In order to get the plugin to work, I believe that I have to assign my administrator account the role ’Editor’?
Does annyone who is a beginner, manage to get this to work? And how?
You don’t have to if you are not using the use user roles setting, which out of the box you aren’t, any logged in user with the correct perms should work, your admin user should be able to edit all your sites pages. If you activate the user roles feature then yes you will need your admin user to have the role you nominate.
Use MODx, or the cat gets it!
My problem is that my site has multiple sub sites and when I log in I can see the menu and edit pages in the main site but I get no menu in the sub sites. I am logged in as admin from the front end login form on one of the sub sites. For example
projectkiamichi.org works fine but
troop391.projectkiamichi.org does not.
Hi I’d like to say thanks for tackling such a difficult albeit much needed issue such as front-end editing.
Now here’s what I’m having a problem with, although thinking about it logically I have a few ideas of how to modify based on the quick run-through of what I’m doing. I don’t have sub-sites like jerry325, but I do have sub-pages that frontpage does not want to edit for whatever reason. I have a login and when I log in with my admin I can edit any pages that are on the same tree level as the frontpage templates.
When I navigate to a page that is one level below the top level page, front page kicks me to the index of my site and pretty much stays broken, in that I can’t get into any edit mode, but rather I can only see the top level page with broken image links.
For example. I can edit a page named www.site.com/rental.html. I can not edit a page named www.site.com/rental/objects.html.
Maybe this has something to do with FURLs? I’m a half-breed designer/developer so my thought depth with code can only go so far as to have an idea of what the problem is, but not always know how to fix it.
I have perused the documentation and haven’t seen the answer I need. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, and I will post my process of setting up the login/frontpage for those that are having as much trouble figuring it out as I did.
Thanks!
Hi jerry325, do you use separate contexts for your sub-sites? If so you will have probs here, Frontpage only installs into the web context, not any others at the mo.
Hi jilesr, interesting, i thought I’d tested with FURL’s but maybe not, I’ll check this and report back.
Use MODx, or the cat gets it!
Yep, separate contexts. :-( Guess I’ll have to wait.
Yep, not good I know but there is a more general prob here of how packages install anything that’s context dependent like resources, unless you write a resolver to look at all the contexts and duplicate the resources so they can be installed in all of them(or whichever ones the user wants?) then you have to handle the context in the backend etc.
I’ll ask a more general question about this on the forums, I’m sure its been raised before.
Use MODx, or the cat gets it!
I haven’t figured out how to force the editor use CSS styles. TinyMCE loads my CSS files in the back-end but not when i login from front-end. How to load the website’s CSS instead of default CSS styles of the front-end editor?
