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FS#566 — Add summary text and other fields to the Page Data screen

Attached to Project — MODx
Opened by Iain Brown (ibrown) - Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 07:24AM
Last edited by Paul Gregory (PaulGregory) - Thursday, 11 January 2007, 06:10PM
Task Type Feature Request
Category User Interface
Status Assigned
Assigned To Ryan Thrash (rthrash)
Operating System All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version pre-0.9.5.x
Due in Version 0.9.7
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%

Details

Would it be possible, when viewing the document data, to include the Summary (introtext) on the Page Data screen?

At present the general section includes

- Title
- Long title
- Description
- Type
- Document's alias
- Keywords

It would be very helpful if the summary (introtext) were also included in this section.

All other data from the General tab on the Creating/Editing page seems to be displayed on the View Document Data page, so why not the summary (introtext)?

It should be very simple to call this field from the database, and I would do it myself, but I know any hacks I make to the core will be overwritten when I upgrade the site.

See the attached screenshots which shows what I mean ...   summaryfield.png
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Comment by Ryan Thrash (rthrash) - Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 08:55AM
I like the idea... and while we're at it, the template used as well.

Comment by Iain Brown (ibrown) - Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 10:56AM
Spent all of yesterday working with MODx, and found that it would also be very useful to have the document ID on the View Document Data page.

Yes, I know it is listed after the doc name in the folder view on the left, but I found I was forgetting which document I was working on, and which ID I had to remember when about to insert a hyperlink on another page.

A small thing, I know, but one of those "icing on cake" requests.

Comment by Paul Gregory (PaulGregory) - Thursday, 11 January 2007, 06:12PM
I've modified the request title to cover these other fields.

I would like "publishedon" to be listed under Changes along with the Created and Edited dates, as this will help to remind people that there is a publishedon field that is different from the pub_date that is listed in Status.

Comment by Paul Gregory (PaulGregory) - Monday, 15 January 2007, 07:53PM
Seems template got added at some point already. It is actually very simple to add these fields; I have this working on my install now with ID, summary (introtext), menutitle, publishedon and publishedby.