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Manager Menu items

sottwell — Jan 20, 2015, 10:20 PM

How can I create a new Manager menu item that simply links to a resource?

Re: Manager Menu items

sottwell — Jan 21, 2015, 04:04 PM

Be my guest.

I have the parent container for the documentation resources unpublished, so only logged-in Manager users will be able to access it. I'm not so sure that's a great idea, as there's nothing really secret about it, and a client may want to access them from a bookmark when he's not in the Manager. I'm thinking that hide from menus should be sufficient.

Re: Manager Menu items

BobRay — Jan 21, 2015, 03:06 PM

Nice idea. Do you mind if I do a blog article on this?

Re: Manager Menu items

sottwell — Jan 21, 2015, 02:42 PM

Thanks, that gave me the starting point. I ended up with this for a link to custom documentation for site features

window.open('http://domain.com/site-documentation/','_blank');

Re: Manager Menu items

BobRay — Jan 21, 2015, 01:59 PM

Now that I think about it, either way the options are the same. When you update a menu item, there's a 'Handler' field. It takes raw JS and simply executes it when the menu item is selected, so these should do it (untested).

Handler:

window.location="http://yoursite.com/manager/?a=resource/update&id=12";

window.location="http://yoursite.com/someresource.html";

Re: Manager Menu items

BobRay — Jan 21, 2015, 01:45 PM

Do you mean a link to a resource in the front end, or a link to edit the resource in the Manager?