mod_admin.rst

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Extending the admin menu

See model-admin_menu on how to extend the admin menu.

Extending the admin edit page

There are several special templates names that will be automatically included into the /admin/edit/xxx page from when you create these specially named templates.

_admin_edit_basics.tpl

Will be automatically included into main (left) div (at top).

_admin_edit_content.tpl

Will be automatically included into main (left) div (at bottom).

_admin_edit_sidebar.tpl

Will be automatically included into right sidebar (near middle/bottom).

These templates are included using the tag-all-catinclude tag; so if you need something in the sidebar just for persons, create a _admin_edit_sidebar.person.tpl file in your project.

Overriding TinyMCE options

If you need to override TinyMCE options; adding plugins, or setting other settings; you can create an _admin_tinymce_overrides_js.tpl file which can contain extra settings for the TinyMCE editors in the admin.

javascript

The template must contain Javascript which modifies the tinyInit variable just before the editor is started. For example, to tweak the "paste" options you can put the following in the template:

tinyInit.theme_advanced_blockformats = "p,h1,h2"
tinyInit.paste_auto_cleanup_on_paste = true;
tinyInit.paste_remove_styles = true;
tinyInit.paste_remove_styles_if_webkit = true;
tinyInit.paste_strip_class_attributes = true;
tinyInit.paste_text_sticky = true;
tinyInit.paste_text_sticky_default = true;

Writing admin widget templates

This section contains examples of templates to create widgets for the /admin. Each of these examples extends basic several widget templates from mod_admin. To write your own you need to drop example content and fill holes in these example widgets.

You can use them as basis for your site admin-related tasks.

_admin_dashboard_example.tpl

Very simple example widget for admin dashboard. Contains blocks for title and body. Look at /admin to see several dashboard widgets (latest events, pages, media, etc).

_admin_widget_std.tpl

Sligthly more complex widget example. Same templates are used into /admin/edit/N for main content and sidebar widgets. These widgets do not provide any localization abilities. Also note that there are several special widget names:

_admin_widget_i18n.tpl

Complex widget example. Is used to edit localized rsc properties. It will be rendered as tabs. See /admin/edit/N top left to see the tabs. If mod_translation disabled, then i18n-widgets are displayed same as _admin_widget_std.tpl.

Making an admin widget conditionally visible

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To make an entire admin widget visible or not, depending on some condition that you want to calculate inside the widget’s code, you can use the widget_wrapper block (which sits around the entire widget) in combination with the tag-inherit tag, wrapping that with a condition.

For instance, mod_backup uses this technique to display the import/export sidebar widget. Excerpt from mod_backup’s `_admin_edit_sidebar.tpl`:

{# Make the widget conditional, based on the config value mod_backup.admin_panel #}
{% block widget_wrapper %}
    {% if m.config.mod_backup.admin_panel.value %}
        {% inherit %}
    {% endif %}
{% endblock %}

In this example, when the condition is true, the wrapper is rendered normally (content is inherited from the extended template); when false, the wrapper block is overridden by new (but void) content.

template-admin_edit_widget_i18n, tag-inherit

Resource meta features

Resources in the meta category can have 'features': certain resource properties (usually in the form of checkboxes) that decide what to show or hide on certain pages in the admin. To use this, create a _admin_features.category.tpl in your module.

For instance, the module mod_geomap defines the following _admin_features.category.tpl to create an extra checkbox so that per category can be defined whether or not the geodata box should be shown:

<div class="controls">
    <label class="checkbox">
        <input value="1" type="checkbox"
               name="feature_show_geodata"
               {% if id.feature_show_geodata|if_undefined:`true` %}checked{% endif %}
               />
        {_ Show geo data on edit page _}
    </label>
</div>

And on the edit page there is this check to conditionally include the geodata box:

{% if id.category_id.feature_show_geodata|if_undefined:`true` %}

The if_undefined is used so that the default value can be true when the checkbox has never been touched.

Configuration keys

For the admin there are two configuration keys: mod_admin.rsc_dialog_tabs and mod_admin.rsc_dialog_is_published.

The mod_admin.rsc_dialog_tabs key defines which tabs are shown in the new resource, media-upload, and image-link dialogs. Per defauls these dialogs show all the possible tabs, with this configurarion key it is possible to change that.

The tabs are: find,new,upload,url,embed,oembed,depiction

The depiction is used for the TinyMCE image-link dialog; it shows all media connected using the depiction predicate.

The mod_admin.rsc_dialog_is_published defines the default is_published state for new resources being mad in the new tab. Setting this key to 1 will check the is_published checkbox.

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