What are the current front-end editing options?

Hi folks,

I've searched the boards and not found much recent discussion on this. Some info I have found suggests it is available functionality; other posts suggest it's still wishlist stuff that's not yet perfected.

So...

1) What capabilities currently exist to allow users with limited editing permissions to click on a published page and make changes?

2) Does Modx include this as built-in functionality?

3) Or are there one or more extras that are commonly used for this? I see SiteEditor and Aloha as possibilities, but can't find much discussion/examples about them (as a non-techie, I generally have problems deciphering what each extra is actually designed to do).

Thanks for any advice on this.

-Dwayne

Which version of MODx? For Evo, QuickManager is an excellent solution.

For Revo, the QuickBar is a sort of solution; it provides a way to go directly from a page on the front-end to its resource editing page in the Manager, or to create a child resource. With limited permissions and Form Customization you can do quite a bit in the way of customizing the editing pages. But it doesn't have the clever way of putting "Edit" buttons in getResources list items the way QE+ does for Evo.

Quote from: sottwell at Jul 10, 2013, 10:38 AM

Which version of MODx? For Evo, QuickManager is an excellent solution.

For Revo, the QuickBar is a sort of solution; it provides a way to go directly from a page on the front-end to its resource editing page in the Manager, or to create a child resource. With limited permissions and Form Customization you can do quite a bit in the way of customizing the editing pages. But it doesn't have the clever way of putting "Edit" buttons in getResources list items the way QE+ does for Evo.

Susan,

Sorry, haven't posted in a while and forgot to mention I use Revolution.

So thanks for the recommendation; I will look at QuickBar. Still wondering are there other options? In other words, is this just the one that you like?

I ask because in all my searches for front-end editing, this extra never came up. It makes me wonder if I'm not looking in the right place whenever I start searching for something I need in Modx.

Thanks again. -Dwayne

There isn't much in the way of front-end editing. There is NewsPublisher for Revo, but that's for web users, not manager users. Well, in Revo the distinction can get blurred, so maybe it'll do what you want, with the right permissions and context permissions for your users.

Users have to log in to the front end to use NewsPublisher, but it doesn't care what kind of users they are as long as their User Group has the appropriate permissions. It comes with its own policy.

It *will* put an Edit button on any editable page once the user is logged in.

Any input on SiteEditor in Revo 2.28? http://modx.com/extras/package/siteeditor

I know it's just alpha, but looks very interesting and is on my list of things to experiment with. The thought is to try and integrate it with something like fliipant.js:

Would appreciate any input. Easy front end client editing is critical for my current applications.

Thanks!

Aubrey

Your best bet is going to be the NewsPublisher and the Login extras along with the Articles extra. Frontpage is another option for NewsPublisher.

Read through this post as well. https://forums.modx.com/thread/80109/front-end-editing-rights-access

It has some good info in it.

If you only want to allow users to submit articles, this is a good choice. https://forums.modx.com/thread/31314/how-to-create-resources-documents-from-the-front-end-with-a-form

You'll need to try each solution to see what works for you.

Siteeditor is a really great idea. When I tested it though, I had a problem editing the content of a page. In my layout I have the longtitle in an h1 tag above my content. I found that I could edit the longtitle fine, but it would not allow me to edit the content block underneath it. I would suggest that they show the edit symbol as default to highlight all editable elements.