Asides

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).

Requirements

• MODX Revolution 2.2+
• TinyMCE

Configuration

• 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 @SELECT name FROM modx_site_htmlsnippets WHERE category = 3 (where 3 is the category ID where your chunks will belong)
• allow aside TV to access your desired templates
• in those templates, set [[Asides? &source=``[[*aside]]`` &wrapper=``aside.wrapper``]]
• you now should be good to go!

Note: setting "Lock chunk for editing" as activated prevents the chunk edition

Credits

This Extra is based 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

Copyright Information

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.