How do you hide the top section of a chunk page?

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modgod Reply #1, 7 years, 11 months ago

The footer section of my site has content that repeats across all pages.
I have set it up as a chunk and given content editors permissions to edit and save it.
But I want to hide the top section of the chunk edit screen ie the Name, Description, Category and the 3 tick boxes, from the editors because I don't want them messing with these settings.
Also I'd like to hide the Properties tab.

What is the best way to do this?

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 7 years, 11 months ago

maybe, you could use https://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/clientconfig for that

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modgod Reply #3, 7 years, 11 months ago

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.

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modgod Reply #4, 7 years, 11 months ago

I could be wrong but I don't think this is the solution for me. It appears to let you add settings for the user, but not take them away.

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marlieshartog Reply #5, 7 years, 11 months ago

Maybe create a page behind a login, and add something like this:

<textarea name="chunkvalue">
[[+chunkvalue]]
</textarea>

and get and set the chunk like this:

$chunk = $modx->getObject('modChunk', array('name' => $chunk_name)); 
$chunkvalue = $_POST['chunkvalue'];
$chunk->set('snippet', $chunkvalue);

Haven't tested this, and not sure if it's a good solution for you - but trying to be creative

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sottwell Reply #6, 7 years, 11 months ago

I use TVs for this sort of thing, and sometimes a resource itself, then use getField or fastField to display the value.

In one case, where the footer has four columns of content, I have a "footer" resource with its own template to control the four blocks of TVs, and everything else hidden using Form Customization.

For the display of the footer, I use the FastField tags such as [[#211.tv.footerLogo]], and in the case of the illustrated links MIGX TV, a getImageList snippet:

       <!-- Link List -->
        <div class="col-md-3 md-margin-bottom-40">
          <div class="headline"><h2 class="heading-sm">Useful Links</h2></div>
          <ul class="list-unstyled link-list">
            [[getImageList?
              &tvname=`footerLinks`
              &docid=`211`
              &tpl=`footerLinksTpl`
            ]]
          </ul>
        </div><!-- End Link List -->

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Bruno17 Reply #7, 7 years, 11 months ago

you can create a textarea-clientConfig for your user instaed of a chunk and don't let him edit Chunks at all.

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modgod Reply #8, 7 years, 11 months ago

Thanks to all for your suggestions, I will look into them. For the time being, I've altered the css to hide unwanted sections.

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sottwell Reply #9, 7 years, 11 months ago

Did you create a new duplicate Manager theme, modify that new theme's CSS, then switch to that theme in the System Settings? If you just edited the existing default Manager theme, it'll be overridden with the default every time you upgrade MODX.

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modgod Reply #10, 7 years, 11 months ago

Ah, good thought, I'll do that. Thanks