Asides is a MODX Extra allowing you (and your clients) to easily manage "asides" on a website. You'll be able to quickly create chunks without having access to the Elements tab (and even without the new_chunk right).
Asides is developped under MODX Revolution 2.1.0-rc4 & MySQL, but i should work smoothly with MsSQL or Revolution 2.0.x.
- Install via package manager.
- Setup the asides.categoryId system setting to fit your needs (indicates the category ID where your chunks to be used as asides will be stored).
- set aside TV input option value at
@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet('getAside'); - allow aside TV to access your desired templates
- in those templates, set
[[showAside? &chunks=``[[*aside]]``]] - you now should be good to go!
Note: setting "Lock chunk for editing" as activated prevents the chunk edition from the grid
This Extra is base on some MODX community members, see :
- http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Create_TV-Based_Chunks It also makes use of MadeMyDay's sortable checkbox TV :
- https://github.com/MadeMyDay/checkboxSortable This Extra is, of course, based on the exellent modExtra from Shaun McCormick :
- https://github.com/splittingred/modExtra
Asides is distributed as GPL (as MODx Revolution is), but the copyright owner (Romain Tripault) grants all users of Asides the ability to modify, distribute and use Asides in MODX development as they see fit, as long as attribution is given somewhere in the distributed source of all derivative works.