MODx vs CMSMS: Comparative Review

This would apply to only new content (new page for example) or would this also work for new edits to existing content?

just new content unfortunately

MODx does not force you into a limited number of content areas. MODx does allow you to have virtually any type of content on every page: grids automagically built from CSV files that the receptionist FTPs to a specific location daily to simple text input fields.

Ryan,
Can you point me in the right direction? I’ve been curious about giving clients the ability to update info on their sites by CSV upload. I’ll be looking in the mean time. Thanks.

There are several ways to do it as usual with MODx... One way to do it would be using the @FILE binding and a datagrid widget

David, that’s exactly what we used for the (client-designed) freight company leaderboard: http://bedrockfreight.com/index.php?id=4

The receptionist follows a simple procedure of saving out their daily .xls as a CSV file named appropriately then posts it via FTP to generate the table. The widget takes care of the rest.

Nice !

I have played with this but never got down to actually using it for a project, nice to see a sample use

Thanks. I was just reading about that. You guys are great! I appreciate the replies.

Can you provide details? I thought the datagrid only worked with @SELECT.

Can datagrid accept a custom delimiter? Whenever I try to use datagrid with a file I get a single column of text.

Quote from: rthrash at Apr 25, 2008, 08:24 AM

David, that’s exactly what we used for the (client-designed) freight company leaderboard: http://bedrockfreight.com/index.php?id=4

The receptionist follows a simple procedure of saving out their daily .xls as a CSV file named appropriately then posts it via FTP to generate the table. The widget takes care of the rest.

bwente,

You can find it discussed here previously. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to dig up the details and write the tutorial. It’s a bit confusing but it does work!

Actually, I did find the discussion using the forum built-in search: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1666.msg11635.html#msg11635 (start there and view that page in full ... )