Do you customise the admin area for your clients?

Charlie Chalk · 2005-10-27 16:47:08

Hi

I’m looking at using Textpattern for some upcoming ‘brochure’ type sites, and I was wondering if it’s possible/allowed to customise the admin area.

I don’t find it too confusing now I’m used to the jargon, but I could see a non-techie user being as confused by Forms & articles etc as they would looking at a page full of (x)HTML!

Is it possible to re-name the tabs with more meanigful descriptions, and maybe make some client specific help text?

Any help gratefully recieved

CC

EddieG5 · 2005-10-27 17:24:45

Charlie,

If your client is just updating and editing content, you would assign them a lower status so that they wouldn’t have access to the more advanced tabs. Basically, they only need to deal with ‘Write’ and ‘Articles.’ I think most folks should be able to handle those descriptions.

With that said, I think Mary has been working on modifying the Admin area a bit … maybe you can find some answers there. Admin Facelift→

Mary · 2005-10-27 18:04:55

> …“re-name the tabs…”

Tabs, like most of the text in the admin, is powered by a lang string definition table. Open up your database and go to the “txp_lang” table. Find the rows where the “name” looks like “tab__rest-of-name_” and change “data” to whatever else you want.

That said, EddieG5 is right, you don’t need to do this, simply change your users’ permissions.

> …and maybe make some client specific help text?…”

Create an admin-side plugin. They give you the ability to add a new tab/page to the admin interface, that can contain whatever you’d like.

For both, see the stickied posts in the plugins forum for further info.

wet · 2005-10-28 05:16:30

..client specific help text?

I usually post an “owner’s manual” article to an internal section containing

the most useful links to the admin interface the client will probably need (htttp://www.example.com/textpattern/?event=image and the like)
some basic Textile formatting information. This has the advantage of presenting “live” styling to the client, e.g. when my owner’s manual explains how to introduce block quotes, a block quote in the site’s own style sits just beneath to serve as an example.
my contact information ;-)

Quite useful…

squaredeye · 2005-11-26 17:15:59

Along these lines, where would one “comment out” some of the fields in the write tab, so that users aren’t tempted to mess with them?

I know about this plugin, but I haven’t been able to make it work in 4.02.

There may be an argument for not removing any fields, but I would atleast like to know how to do it should I choose to.

Mary, WET, any ideas?

Matthew

Mary · 2005-11-27 02:27:54

You can comment them out, but that would mean you couldn’t see them either. A plugin is still possible, I just wouldn’t be the first one to volunteer for it.

squaredeye · 2005-11-27 03:52:27

What no volunteering?!!! Mary you’re slacking!!! Ha! jus kiddin’.
Okay, sounds good. I’ll keep asking around.
If I did want to comment them out, where would I find / do that?

Thanks,

Matthew

Mary · 2005-11-27 04:32:49

:) /textpattern/include/txp_article.php

nardo · 2005-11-27 22:20:05

wet, would you consider posting your manual (or an edited version) to the forum? much of it would be valid for other sites … and may prompt some refinement in txp-translation techniques for non-txp contributors … I will post my simple ‘user manual’ here shortly…

(I also use an internal section – as you say, allows for examples of styling to be shown as per the site’s css, which might not be possible easily with an admin side plugin … although an admin-tab called ‘help’ might be more visible)

squaredeye · 2005-11-27 22:56:26

Nardo,
I’m interested in the same thing and have been trying to figure out how to incorporate Sencer’s plugin of sorts, to work in this way, but its strictly a welcome page without its own tab like “help” as you suggested.

Any thoughts on how that could be accomplished?

Matthew

EDIT looking at this more closely, all I would need is a tab viewable by all members that essentially
points to <code>< site_url>textpatternfolder/index.php</code>

The nice thing about sencer’s plugin for a “dashboard” is that I can come up with a hidden section like “tutorials” and then in the form for Sencer’s plugin just call <txp:article_custom section=“tutorials” limit=“1” /> and I have “help” or “tutorial” articles ready to go, and on the first page for any would be end-user.

This could be a really nice and very flexible plugin. I think Sencer meant to hand it off to anyone else to develop it. This is where I am kicking myself for not getting in touch with my inner geek a long time ago, so that by now I would be php savvy :( Ah well, hopefully there’s still time :)

Last edited by ma_smith (2005-11-28 00:01:39)

squaredeye · 2005-11-28 12:37:47

Also, Mary, I commented out the bits in txp_article.php, but found that upon doing so I was not able to publish articles?

I could write them, just not publish them.

perhaps I broke the flow?

Dunno.

help?

Matthew

Mary · 2005-11-28 19:12:38

perhaps I broke the flow?

That’d be my guess. You’ve probably commented out more than you should have, like the hidden input fields.

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