Highlight parent resources on create

Hi,

I am dealing with the following problem:
A user creates a resource from the backend via rightclicking on a parent.
The page reloads and everything is fine.
But now there is no information about my "position" in the resource-tree.

What I would like to have:
a) to highlight all parent resources (for example a green background) in the tree
OR
b) showing a breadcrumb in the docform. (somewhere above the pagetitle f.e.)

I would prefer version a).

I tried to hack the tree with a plugin and some js but there is barely no information which parent I#m working on. Also after switching the templte I lose my information about the parent...

Does anyone have an idea how to accomplish this?
I think that would be nice to have anyway.

thanks,
janein

Modifying the tree is not easy, but in a plugin that fires when the doc is saved, the parent's ID should be available with:




That would be a great feature request to submit at http://bugs.modx.com.

Quote from: BobRay at Jul 26, 2013, 02:15 AM

Modifying the tree is not easy, but in a plugin that fires when the doc is saved, the parent's ID should be available with:

$resource->get('parent');

That would be a great feature request to submit at http://bugs.modx.com.

I would need to show this before the new resource is saved. Afterwards it would be quite easy to show at least the breadcrumbs above the form.

I nearly could do the trick to select the parent element in the tree with javascript, but the only attribute refering to the resource is: When I try to select the element via javaascript I get an error because of the colon in the attribute's name. I also couldn't escape it with a "\".