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If anyone has used TYPO3, Plone, Reddot, Ektron, Rythmyx or some other CMSs you are familiar with this. This basically allows editors/authors to navigate the site in the CMS and edit content elements in place. Editable content elements are usually denoted with an icon like a pencil or a dot. The selected element then is editable usually in a popup window. There's a lot more to this but those are the basics. I actually don't think it'd be a tremendous ordeal to bolt on the basics of this to MODx. We would have to add a check to the TV creation to note if it should be editable on the front-end or not and then output the appropriate code but it's not too difficult I would think. Thoughts? Anyone else see the value in ease of use for this? With the proper controls in place, authors would never need to see the backend/manager, just browse the "editable" version of the site.
This is something I've longed for for a long time. It makes a LOT of sense from an intuitive standpoint for end-users, and is something that we discussed a long time ago, but that keeps getting pushed back in the game plan.
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
Follow me on Twitter at @rthrash or catch my occasional unofficial thoughts at thrash.me
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Ditto.
And actually I already did this for a client. They have a login link on the right side which presents a login widget in their template. Upon logging in, they automatically have "edit/delete/add a child page" links at the bottom of every page they have access to edit.
There are 150+ editor accounts and none of them has any clue there is even a backend.
Works very well-- and is the client's favorite feature of the entire system.
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I was wondering why I needed to continue mopping my desk and floor when I realised that it must be becuse my tongue is hanging out of my mouth all the time when I read posts like this. However the proof is in the pudding, the appetite is there but as an absolute programming nitwit who obviously can envision this end-product, I don't know how this cane ver be realised. Infoclipper seems already to have integrated quite some wishes, but no examples to show. Getting rid of frames, front-end editing of TVs by user-permission etc. Too good to be true??