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I agree with you on it being simple, but when you are managing 1800 books, those books stored at 15 different locations, and over 100 library users, the page tree isn't really very practical. Though the search in processwire helps, I guess I'm looking for something a little easier for the tasks the 'librarians' have to do on the back end. I'm wondering if the suggestion to use CustomAdminPages would be the way to go. I suppose I could make a page so when a librarian logs in, they would just see their books in a nice table (using datatables with filtering/sorting?) with clear buttons for their various tasks. Can these be set as the default page the admin opens to if the users isn't an administrator? And when they complete a task (check in a book for example), have it go back to this page? Almost like a dashboard for each librarian I suppose.

Maybe a simple question here, but what is the common practice for allowing users to interact with the back end? Do you just let them into the administrator interface with some access control set? Do you build special pages that they can use to manage content? I have a library site I built for a local group where I live. I would like to allow the 'librarians' to see what books are checked out, check books back in, send canned emails out to people who have overdue books, add new books, etc. But seeing all the back end of Processwire will be way too intimidating to them. In this case, would it be worth creating pages that allow the librarian to interact with the data, but shield them from the admin sections of Processwire? Or is that too much of a chore and should I just show them how to use the backend and tell them to get used to it?

Is it possible to have a thumbnail for the buttons instead of the name with the + icon?

Thanks for the feedback. I agree on the slider criticism. I designed the internal pages first and then was struggling on what to do on the homepage. The slider was more of a 'fill the space' decision than anything else and I was never happy with it. I will revisit that soon and see what improvements can be made. Feel free to suggest anything if you have any ideas.

Interesting. I know IT blocks our office from getting out to foreign addresses, but I didn't know it went the other way. Thanks for trying to visit anyway. ?

You all are such professional designers that I hesitate sharing my site here, but it might show what Processwire can do even for 'average' users. I created this site with Processwire for the County of Ventura's Assessor's Office. It is a redo of the previous site done in ASP that was showing it's age. The goal was to provide a more modern design that would work with desktop or mobile while at the same time providing more features for the taxpayers to access data and communicate with us. While most of the County Government sites use WordPress (or similar) they graciously allowed me to give Processwire a try. I think it performs admirably, is easy to maintain, very fast, and actually fun to work with (most of the time....?). http://assessor.countyofventura.org Most of the site is handled by two main templates, one for the summary pages, and one for the detail pages. I also created a 'dummy' template to act as a folder to hold the pages for each category (to make a manageable hierarchy) . This made it easier for me to find things on the back end and mimics the front end nicely. On the back end there are several templates that hold things like forms (pdf downloads), links, glossary terms, frequently asked questions, form responses, and more. All of these are dynamically included into the front facing pages based on their content and how they relate to the individual pages. Fillable forms were the hardest part for me. I tried working with some of the free modules for this sort of thing but I could never wrap my head around them. In the end, I just did it by hand with standard PHP forms combined with using the Processwire API to save the results to the database. It works fairly well but I'm sure there is a better way. A big thank you to everyone on this forum for their help and tips both directly and indirectly, and to Ryan who makes this fabulous software available to us. Any suggestions on the site are welcome.

I just upgraded to the new master and TinyMCE wasn't installed. Isn't it supposed to be part of the master now? I looked in the modules directory on my server and it isn't there. Any suggestions? NEVERMIND: its working now. I had to hit refresh several times in various places. Strange. I never had to do that before.

Ok, good to know. It's probably just easier to use a 'normal' method (CSS & radio buttons or the like). Thanks for the info.

Could you give a more complete example of how to use this on the front end? Do I have to format the input field in a certain way? Does it have to be of type text? number? Do I have to put certain classes on the field to make it do it's magic? Matt

Thank you. That is very helpful. I can see there is a lot of power in using hooks. I'll have to look into those more. I think I will eventually do this as a batch (find all the ones that aren't checked, process them, send an email, etc) but I want to make sure everything is working before I set it loose on it's own (and what type of errors might crop up). I trust processwire, but I don't trust me driving processwire! ☺️ Thanks again.

Oops...I just came across an answer in this post. I spent all day yesterday trying to figure this out and then I find the answer a couple minutes after finally asking the question. ?‍♂️ If I use the $page->setAndSave() method then it works. I would still be interested to hear if there is a better way to accomplish this task.

I've spent way too much time trying to figure this out so now I just have to ask. I added an option to the save button when editing a page. What I want it to do is, when clicked, send an email out to the appropriate person, change a field on the page, then save. I have everything working up until the change a value on the page and save. I can't seem to figure out how to do this. I really don't understand what I'm doing. So far the email part works because I just smashed together various bits and pieces from the forums. Here is the hook that adds the button $wire->addHookAfter('ProcessPageEdit::getSubmitActions', function($event) { $actions = $event->return; // array of actions indexed by name $page = $event->object->getPage(); // page being edited // add a new action to process the Change of Address request if // this page uses the change of address template if ($page->template == 'Change_Of_Address' && $page->yes_no == false){ $actions['Process Form'] = [ 'value' => 'process', 'icon' => 'address-card', 'label' => '%s + Process', 'class' => '', ]; $event->return = $actions; } }); And here is the modified code that attempts to change a field value and save the page. I removed all the part that creates/sends the email. $wire->addHookAfter('ProcessPageEdit::processSubmitAction', function($event) { $action = $event->arguments(0); // action name, i.e. 'hello' $page = $event->object->getPage(); // Page that was edited/saved if($action === 'process') { $page->yes_no = true; $pages->saveField($page, 'yes_no'); $notice = new NoticeWarning("This address change has been sent to the appropriate crew."); $notice->icon = 'address-card'; $event->notices->add($notice); $event->object->setRedirectUrl('../'); } }); I get an error on the $pages->saveField line saying: Call to a member function saveField() on null Can anyone offer some help on this? If there is an easier way to do this other than using hooks and adding buttons I would welcome that as well.

Both great ideas. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I have so much to learn in the processwire universe!

Is it possible to hide the URL to the various files in the site/assets/files directory from being indexed? For example, say I have a site at somesite.com. I have a PDF file that someone can download at somesite.com/site/assets/files/1376/mypdf.pdf. Is there a way to hide all that and just have the link be something like somesite.com/pdfs/mypdf.pdf? I guess it doesn't really matter, it just looks messy having all those site/assets/files/1075/etc/etc in there.

Thank you for that. It was the perfect solution and very easy.