Howto? How do I add links to the main menu to edit specific css or js files located in the file tree.

Quote from: BobRay at May 03, 2013, 03:57 PM

Processing is cheap in OnDocFormSave, since it doesn't affect page loads in the front end. I doubt if you would notice the difference in saving time. I don't really understand your idea, though, because Resources don't have properties. I think you would have to either co-opt an unused resource field or use a TV. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you.

You're right. They don't have properties. My mistake.

A TV would be fine for resources. For everything else a property could be used.

Is there any way to automatically set default properties for every new template, tv, chunk, snippet or plugin?

I'll sum up what I believe wold be a very useful feature:

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MODX Bookmarks

Add a Bookmark Menu to MODX Manager. Every resource, snippet, plugin, template, chunk or file can be added to that list.
Clicking on of these items will open that item in edit mode (for example "Edit Chunk"). For elements or resources we edit very often, this is much faster than navigating the tree.

Bookmarks can be already be stored in the main menu by creating actions for these bookmarks.

A better way to handle this would be a "bookmarks" plugin:

New Bookmarks can be added to the actions list by setting a property or tv with the name "modx_bookmark" to true.
Setting the value to false will remove the bookmark from out list.
If we delete an element, the bookmark for this element has to be removed as well.

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Thats it.

Regards, pepebe

Offtopic Question: Is there any way to change the hover event from the main menu? On smaller screen they tend to popup while moving the mouse towards the utility buttons (save, duplicate, delete, etc.). I'd rather open a menu with a single mouse-click (or a tab on a mobile device).

Yes, that's absolutely possible, though it would take some time to create. There's nothing technically very difficult about it until you get to the part about adding bookmarking to the context menu in the trees. You didn't mention that, but it's bound to come up eventually.

Note that it would work for Resources and Elements, but not for files -- since there's no obvious place
to store the bookmark flag.

I'll put it on my Extra Ideas list, though I think there are about 60 ideas on the list already.

The Dashboard comes with the "Recently Edited Resources" widget that has "view", "edit" and "preview" options for each item. I use it all the time. Although a top menu bookmark would be more convenient, as well as providing links to elements as well.

Quote from: pepebe at May 03, 2013, 12:52 PM

Is it possible to add and remove such actions with a plugin?
I'm talking about bookmarks.

Not exactly what you want, but it's a start:

A dashboard widget which uses getResources to show links to resources with a checked bookmark-tv

@.DasItsch: This is a nice concept.

Could we build a link a menu in the system that displays a modal containing the content of a widget?

This could free us from a lot of work because we could use things that are already there.

Thank you.

Quote from: DasItsch at May 04, 2013, 02:29 AM

Quote from: pepebe at May 03, 2013, 12:52 PM

Is it possible to add and remove such actions with a plugin?
I'm talking about bookmarks.

Not exactly what you want, but it's a start:

A dashboard widget which uses getResources to show links to resources with a checked bookmark-tv

- Create a checkbox-TV and assign it to your Template
  Name:     bookmark
  Value:    yes==1
  Default:  0

- Create a chunk
  Name:     bookmarkLink
  Content:  <li><a href="?a=30&id=[[+id]]">[[+pagetitle]]</a></li>

- Go to Dashboard -> Dashboards -> Widgets -> Create new Widget
  Widget Name:    Bookmarks
  Widget Type:    HTML
  Widget Content: <ul>[[getResources? &parents=`0` &tvFilters=`bookmark==1` &tpl=`bookmarkLink`]]</ul>

- Add the new Widget to your Dashboard

- Have fun ^^