Answered adding custom buttons in the manager dashboard - guidance needed

Hello,

I remember watching a modx video tutorial (not related to what I want to do here) and in that video I saw that the dashboard had custom buttons such as "make new blog post". As seen in the crude mock up I have uploaded.



For example, my button "new blog post" when clicked on I want it to open up a "New Article" page for the resource ID 14 which is the Articles container.

I have seen this here on how to make a new widget http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/administering-your-site/dashboards/creating-a-dashboard-widget , but how do you go about getting the links to tell modx to open a "new article" page for the above resource.

hope it make sense on what I want to do,

thank you

Tim

To get the links, perform the action the old-fashioned way and copy the URL from the browser's address line.

BTW, rather than a dashboard widget, you could also make these choices on the Manager's Top Menu.

You can also install the QuickBar add-on, which adds a top menu bar in the front-end for logged-in users. You can customize the menu by editing a chunk. It's also themeable (in the quickbar.css setting in System Settings). It comes with two dozen themes.

https://github.com/jpdevries/QuickBar/

Documentation is rather sparse. Implement QuickBar with the QuickBar snippet in your template, configure it in the "quickbar" namespace in System Settings, and customize it with a chunk named "quickbar". The default chunk is in core/components/quickbar/elements/chunks/quickbar.chunk.html.

Thank you for the replies,

@wiegers - exactly what I was looking for, will try to implement.

will read up on the other suggestions as well.

Tim