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@gornycreative, thank you, very impressive and interesting to see how you set this up.

Yes - thank you 0.5.2 has resolved the issues.

Hi Robin, the issue started again, not sure if this is because of the localhost, or MAMP, or if anything could be done about it, but i did notice that there is no tracy bar in the iframe popup, and if i open the popup iframe in a new window, the page title is Logout, so maybe something to do with permissions.

Thanks Robin, well now I upgraded again to the latest version and it started working. I can only assume it was CKeditor caching the js file, because i also had strange errors when i downgraded and it took a while for the downgrade to work (had to log out among other things)..

I'm encountering a strange issue with the latest version if i try and insert any tags with attributes, it doesn't work:

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Invalid tag: no Hanna tag with this name exists.

Thanks @Cybermano, I will review this as soon as possible (and I'll check the PR).

Thanks!

I'm not sure if this was already mentioned or asked – I have this module installed and use it all the time. I also use PageListerPro and when the images output (i have it set to "image only"), it shows the paste URLs field. Just wondering how i can have it not show that, since it takes up vertical space and that column in the lister is not editable when being viewed in the lister.

Thanks!

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This is likely more of a pro module type of thing, but I feel one area that ProcessWire is lacking from other comparable offerings out there is a site theme that is extendable and customizable from the admin backend. Tying a site-profile to the architecture of the site makes sense due to how PW is built, but being unable to switch a theme (even if temporary, to preview what the same content on a site might look like under a different skin), stylistically, after a site-profile is chosen is a little lacking. Even as a developer I like the ability to change things up now and then, but we don't really have a built-in way (that I'm aware of) a way to alter the frontend CSS via the backend using a known definition of basic templating to create themes. We can create one-off site-profiles, but not reusable themes.

I have a fairly decent but rudimentary theme engine that I use; the structure is templates/themes/[name-of-theme]. This has worked well especially in redesigning existing live sites; or as a way to test out how things look with different CSS; or to upgrade a commercial HTML template.

The theme engine also allows file override where the templates/views/some-view.php to be overridden by templates/themes/[name-of-theme]/views/some-view.php ; it's a wrapper for render, like wireRenderFile, so $theme->renderView('name-of-view), and $theme->renderPartial('name-of-partial'), would look in the current active theme for the file and if existing use that, and if not then use the one in templates/views or templates/partials.

i can switch the theme in my _init, which means i can e.g. clone a theme, then have it switch to a development version for me as a user, or by role. Like templates/themes/company vs. templates/themes/company-dev

The structure of the theme folder has stuff like _main.php (the main markup for the page), views, partials, assets, as well as theme specific functions, and a theme init where settings are configured.

@froot sorry I didn't see your posts.

On 9/29/2023 at 4:26 AM, froot said:

Please forgive me if this is a dumb question, but since I have to create a page under the admin page tree to get SF to work, why can't I add images to this very site's /assets/files/ folder? But I guess the answer does something like because the fields I create on the required php or json file don't really exist in the system and are create at runtime?

If i understand correctly the admin pages use the admin template which is not a configurable template.

You could create a settings page under the admin using the ProcessPageEdit process and then using a hook you can get that admin page to use a page in the tree, like "/settings/"; this was an old trick we used to do all the time and suggested by @Jonathan Lahijani.

In terms of the general workflow for the settings factory, i just don't attempt to use images on those settings pages, but what I do is use a centralized media library to store site assets such as a logo. The logo is also tagged as such, and is additionally easily findable by the site managers and they can replace it on their own if they need to; this allows me to use all of the features of the regular page editor and images field and not have to hack it for use in Settings Factory. In SF you could create a page select that would allow selection of that media item.

Sure, well I don't know if/when I'll be able to use your version as I have mountains of infrastructure running on setups that I'm hesitant to change (if it ain't broke don't fix it), but probably on the next iteration of the main profile I use, I can see how the existing field could be replaced, and whether it will be a "drop in" replacement, or require some front end code adjustments...

Thanks for this – I've been using FieldtypeForms for years, which was just a gist

https://gist.github.com/craigrodway/7515600

there may be another one here:

but much appreciated that you have made an official module for this, I use the form select module to allow site editors to select a form to show in a configurable page builder section.

1 hour ago, Mailte said:

Is there a way to add a download button in the compact ui?

I don't think there is a native download feature in soundmanager, and nothing in this module that I'm aware of;

I used plyr (https://plyr.io/) recently to have downloadable audio: https://sfcmp.org/media/artist-chats/

There may be a way to modify the output of the bar ui player though and add a download button.

But more recent audio players like plyr are working well for me, and you could implement it using a simple hanna code.

On 11/21/2023 at 7:48 PM, gornycreative said:

Go on...

I was looking into doing something like this myself, having used UIKit2 and Master 2 a TON in my wordpress days.

Essentially my PW block builder is similar to what they do in terms of output, but I haven't considered the option of actually bringing elements from the Yootheme pro over into - say - a latte template tree.

Is that what you ended up doing, or do you run templates at all?

@gornycreative sure - thanks!

Basically i'm only using YT Pro for the styling, and for modeling the basis of certain types of content/markup. Using the local install of WordPress+YTPro I could setup the preferences for the look and feel of the site, choose the theme, etc. I can sync the YTPro generated CSS file, JS and fonts across to the theme folder in my PW folder. I have a MarkupThemeEngine module that handles frontend theme stuff. It has an api that simplifies handling of display assets (CSS/JS).

A fair amount of the markup is custom coded, textbook UIKit - but that markup inherits the styling of the YTPro generated CSS file. The reason i can't use WordPress is that it ends up being too much work for the users, and it doesn't meet our requirements for a lot of content types. Many things that need plugins in WP can be easily created in PW with some small effort.

The template files are designed to make decisions and do all of the heavy lifting, creating intelligent processes that assist the users to get things done fast. The backend config for any given page is mostly text, images and preferences – nobody has to actually design or configure anything in the admin. Fairly complex pages with multiple sections, images, audio, and video can be setup and done in a matter of minutes. (If i needed to create a more complex layout, I might go and do it in my WordPress install and then analyze the output code and turn that into an algorithmic setup in PW).

There are not that many templates - Basic Page and a Page Builder, plus the custom ones for Albums, Events and Players.

The Page Builder template uses a PageTable - each section of any Page Builder page is stacked "sections"; to add a section is just an entry in the PageTable; and then you select the "Section Type". At that point there may be a couple of things to populate - image, text, and some preferences.

There is a centralized Media Library, and a Media Select field that uses InputfieldSelectize to choose any item in the media library.

On 11/8/2023 at 12:11 PM, bernhard said:

Yes. If you scroll down on mobile with your fingers and you hit a spot between two rows, then the row is resized instead of scrolling the page. Which is less than ideal ?

Hi @bernhard, thanks for this! it should be fixed now...

@bernhard thank you – do you mean on the repertoire list - the use of the Tabulator?

it's like a hotrod type of setup... i have a YT dev subscription, and a sort of process to be able to use the files in my PW front end, and have the wordpress install on local to work with the settings and sometimes do some designs...

Happy to announce the launch of the completely rebuilt San Francisco Contemporary Music Players website, using ProcessWire.

https://sfcmp.org/

The previous website was a hornet's nest of disorganized content, dozens of 3rd party plugins, duct taped together within WordPress... difficult to use, time consuming and confusing to manage. And didn't look so good either.

Lot of fun to rebuild this, though took several months. YOOtheme Pro and UiKit were a dream for me to work with, just love those. Made it so possible to create all of the custom sections, widgets, sliders, cards, mega menus, and so on. Don't consider myself a front-end focused web dev, so have a deep appreciation for the time, care and effort that Yoo has put into both UiKit and YOOtheme Pro. Almost no additonal CSS was needed to be written for this; the stock UiKit classes and attributes make it possible to just build things in HTML and not have to fiddle with CSS.

Ryan's commercial modules played a major role in the build. ProFields, ListerPro, ProCache, and FormBuilder were all important. FormBuilder+Stripe allowed me to confidently migrate their need for a stripe checkout from some WP plugin to the clean and simple setup now using FB. ( https://sfcmp.org/donate/print-for-sale-dirge-by-hung-liu/ )

Some libraries also were of great use and value, namely PLYR for audio, and tabulator for some table display type of stuff.

As always, the API was a dream to work with, many custom import scripts were created along the way to import legacy Press, Albums, Repertoire works, Program Booklets library, Players etc.. The image API is doing wonders with SRC sets, and webp images. The PW documentation site was a daily companion.

This forum likewise was always a most valuable and enjoyable resource to search and rely on for solving the occasional conundrum. There is such a wealth of info here that i never found it necessary to post a question.

Lastly, to underscore just how unparalleled, flexible and user-friendly the PW backend is, we had the backend training session a couple of weeks after the site was launched, and within 30 minutes, the person who will be managing the content was able to know how to create and manage concerts, blog posts, albums, press articles and more.

On 10/6/2023 at 6:45 PM, MarkE said:

OK, the problem here seems to be that values of fieldset children are omitted by ProcessSettingsFactory. Somewhere between (in the buildForm() method) line 136 $form->add($fArray); and line 174 return $form; the values of the fieldset children get dropped. If I comment out the section

foreach($inputfields as $key => $cField) {
...
}

the field values load correctly

thanks for this - i'll see if i can fix that asap.

Hi @MarkE,

One way is to create a json file with the fields you want to give access to from the other module. So if the other module had something like a checkbox, or select field, you would need to copy those field definitions into a new json file, say in your templates/settings folder. Then you would create a new admin page, using the Settings Factory process, and enter the path to that json file.

Now the settings factory is storing the override values for that module separately. So in order to now have those be used, it depends on how you are using that module, if it is being used on the front end, you could override the settings but it depends on which settings are public in that module, and how they are output. If you let me know which module you want to do this on i can see if I can figure it out..

13 hours ago, fruid said:

I tried that, FYI I see 

PHP Warning: Undefined array key "footer_imprint__1021" in .../modules/SettingsFactory/ProcessSettingsFactory.module:151

Yes i see that the lines that handle the languages (148-154) is not checking if the array key is set yet. Will have to add that check to prevent the warning.

8 minutes ago, fruid said:

has something changed in this module? Because I cannot seem to find the place where you enter the path to the json or php file with the settings array. I'm on ProcessWire 3.0.207

@fruid First create a new admin page (under admin, with admin template) and then select ProcessSettingsFactory as the process.

After that you'll see the Inputfields Definition File Path field show.

On 8/30/2023 at 1:09 PM, Matthieu said:

Hello,

I'm trying to use your module, but I think I miss something...
I import first some pages after if I save manually each one all is fine but if I try to bulk save nothing append.

Third case, when I use the api way, the url of image in textarea are well updated but the "images" field stay empty.
Any idea how to clean this situation? Thanks

@Matthieu

Thanks for posting this question, and sorry for the delay – the module runs off of a ProcessWire hook, which is the "save" hook, and it only works when you are in the "ProcessPageEdit" process.

But, we already provided an api for this module, all you have to do is init the module and then use the "importImages()" method and it will work.

Sample Code:

$m = $modules->get("ImportExternalImages");
$p = $pages->get(/path/to/page); // or page ID
$m->importImages($p);

This also assumes you already setup the images and textarea field preferences in the module. After running that api call, the module will search the specified textarea field, analyze it for image URLS and attempt to import all of the found images into the specified image field.

I turn off that "extra web security" or whatever they call it, otherwise it's just a time suck.

Not sure what caused this but i seem to have these entries in the modules table with a period, and seem to be causing some error notices in the modules screen.

Deleting those rows does solve the issue; Posting here in case someone else runs into this. Seems to have been caused by some upgrade/downgrade process of the core.