Show/Create "createdby" Field in Resource Settings

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Ben Morrison Reply #1, 12 years, 5 months ago

I am trying to move from Articles to GridClassKey and I have found a stumbling block in that Modx does not have a standard field for changing the createdby and publishedby fields in the standard resource type (or any but Articles children). Is there a way to do so? I am rather surprised this is not a standard available setting.

This question has been answered by Bruno17. See the first response.

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sottwell Reply #2, 12 years, 5 months ago

That has never been a standard field; that is one of the few features of Articles that I ever liked.

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Ben Morrison Reply #3, 12 years, 5 months ago

Oh shoot... that is a big issue. Perhaps a quest on guthub for Modx?

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sottwell Reply #4, 12 years, 5 months ago

I think you could add the field with a plugin. You would need to use two events, one to add the field on before form render, and one to modify the fields being saved to the database on before form save.

I'm pretty sure that the Manager code has a select drop-down for users, you should be able to "borrow" that for your field.
/core/model/modx/processors/security/user/getlist.class.php
/manager/assets/modext/sections/security/user/list.js
/manager/assets/modext/widgets/security/modx.grid.user.js
/manager/templates/default/security/user/list.tpl

And of course you could take a look at the Articles code and see how they do it.

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sottwell Reply #5, 12 years, 5 months ago

Batcher may be helpful https://forums.modx.com/thread/3766/change-user-author-of-resource#dis-post-392280

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Ben Morrison Reply #6, 12 years, 5 months ago

Thanks! Now I know what files (of so many) to look at for examples... too bad I have the programming skills of a gorilla but I will try.

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Bruno17 Reply #7, 12 years, 5 months ago

May be an easier way could be to create a listbox-TV with @SELECT @EVAL or @CHUNK - binding
And have a plugin for onDocFormSave to syncronize the createdby-field with the value of the TV

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Ben Morrison Reply #8, 12 years, 5 months ago

That could be much easier, in fact I would expect it to.

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Ben Morrison Reply #9, 12 years, 5 months ago

Ok so I created an @EVAL binding to run the Peoples snippet and return a list of active users and it works (modified frm a solution to create Articles categories like in WP):

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet('Peoples',array('tpl'=>'peoplesTpl','outputSeparator'=>'||','active'=>'1'));

The peoplesTpl is as follows:

[[+fullname]]==[[+id]]

Can anyone guide me on the creation of the plugin to be run onDocFormSave to set the createdby setting for the resource to be what is selected in the Tv? I was able to piece together the following from documentation, but it just hangs when I try to save a resource:

switch ($modx->event->name) {
    case 'onDocFormSave':
    
    	$created_by = $resource->getTVValue('setCreatedBy')
    	
		if ($resource->get('createdby') != $created_by) {  
			$modx->resource->set('createdby', $created_by));
		}
	break;
}

[ed. note: maroonlover last edited this post 12 years, 5 months ago.]

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Bruno17 Reply #10, 12 years, 5 months ago

I think it should be:

switch ($modx->event->name) {
    case 'OnDocFormSave':
      
        $created_by = $resource->getTVValue('setCreatedBy');
          
        if (!empty($created_by) && $resource->get('createdby') != $created_by) {
            $resource->set('createdby', $created_by);
            $resource->save();
        }
    break;
}

[ed. note: Bruno17 last edited this post 12 years, 5 months ago.]

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