Comments on: Reorder General Tab with ManagerManager

By: Eliot Jones

Eliot Jones — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:11:00 +0000

Thanks for this — worked like a charm. I’m on Evo 1.04 and notice that the formating of the Menu index is off when I push it to the bottom of the field list…..but otherwise stoked.

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By: Gregory Smart

Gregory Smart — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:54:31 +0000

This was ncrossland's response:
" Hi Greg

Thanks for sending me the link to the post -- very good use of MM, I hadn't thought of it in this way to reorder the fields.

The menuindex field has always been a little tricky to deal with because it is uses a different layout to most other fields (because it has "show in menu" checkbox alongside it, and the < > controls). I specifically excluded it from working with some functions because it broke the layout badly - I'm not sure if this is the case here. It's nothing that isn't fixable, now I know it's important to people.

I've filed this as a bug in Jira so I don't forget about it for the next version: http://svn.modxcms.com/jira/browse/EXT-28 "

By: Gregory Smart

Gregory Smart — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:00:20 +0000

That's interesting, I didn't see that because I was hiding that field from the user anyway. I then use the Module/Doc Manager to order/reorder the pages.

I was able to replicate what you found. The menu index does move above any field listed in that function, but if you remove a field (like pagetitle, it will move ahead of the menuindex). I am not sure how to classify this behavior (annoying?) since this is not really the intended use of this feature.

I have sent a note to ncrossland (the snippet author) informing him of this behavior. I will post if I receive any other information on this.

By: Michael van Laar

Michael van Laar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:33:25 +0000

Today I tested this and it works great, but I’m facing one little problem: After “reordering” fields, the menuindex field is always displayed on top of all other fields – no matter where I place it in the function call.

The function call itself looks like this (whereas “download-file” is one of my template variables and the rest of the fields is hidden):

mm_moveFieldsToTab('pagetitle,download-file,template,parent,menuindex', 'general', '', '6');

By: Jason Imani

Jason Imani — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:52:40 +0000

Very cool…I've wondered about this as well…thanks! Very helpful…

By: Michael van Laar

Michael van Laar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:30:19 +0000

Great tip, Greg. Thanks a lot for sharing. That's exactly what I was searching for weeks now and could not find a proper answer.