Content Editors and Chunks

I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere, but I couldn't be bothered to wade through the thousands of posts that had 'insert' and 'chunk' in them.

I have mostly implemented chunks as a convenience for me. Now I'd like my clients to use them, also as a convenience for me. But I really don't want to have to explain to my clients the [[$ chunk ]] syntax when they are used to the sort-of-wysiwyg of TinyMCE.

So here it is: how do I make chunks available through the interface for insertion via TinyMCE. And more to the point, what about providing chunk insertion as part of the framework. I think ModX is dying for a drag-and-drop implementation where I can just whisk a chunk out of my elements tree and drop it into a document and have some JavaScript magic happen.

hmm, I gutess you're talking about Revo, right? In Evo, there was a "editor to use" dropdown beneath the chunk content field ("none" was default, tinyMCE an option). Pity that's gone in Revo. Perhaps file a feature request?

Check out the which_element_editor System Setting in Revolution. You can also make them rich text TVs instead of chunks.

As far as the drag-and-drop -- it's already there in Revolution. Just put the cursor where you want the chunk or snippet tag and drag and drop from the element tree.

Thanks Bob Ray. I just got your book in the mail and it inspired me to get working on some aspects of my modx implementations that I left undone. Nice work!

I had tried drag n dropping a chunk into my content area with (Revo v 2.0.8) in FF8 mac and it seemed very reluctant to do so. I mostly want to ensure that it works for my editors, who are IE8 folks I think.

I will experiment.

Thanks, and thanks ganeshXL too.

Thanks.

You should definitely upgrade to the current version. There have been many improvements and bug fixes since the one you have.

Well, using BobRay's advice I did the upgrade to the latest revo, and aside from it mangling a bunch of my date TVs, it went pretty well.

I have been playing around with dragging and dropping elements onto resources, and have only had success using IE 8 on Windows, which is depressing.

Chunks are only valuable to my content editors if they put them into their documents using the GUI. Drag & Drop (as I read it) doesn't usually work with RTEs enabled because of security. This means that chunks are not really a solution for me to provide my editors unless I can find a way to make them accessible through the GUI on more than one browser.

Has anyone built something that exposes a list of admin-approved elements for insertion via an RTE? A plugin for TinyMCE that could display a list of chunks that the user can select from for insertion?

I've been searching but I must be using the wrong nomenclature. Concrete 5 has something similar to this with its plugins, so I assume somebody's done this for modx revo


Thanks kindly.