Pagemanager_XH
Pagemanager_XH simplifies the administration of pages of a CMSimple_XH installation. This plugin is comparable to the Menumanager plugin with regard to functionality, but by using a treeview it allows for better handling of websites with many pages. With Pagemanager_XH it is also possible to rearrange whole submenus.
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Requirements
Pagemanager_XH is a plugin for CMSimple_XH ≥ 1.7.0. Additionally it requires the jQuery4CMSimple and Fa_XH plugins, which are already contained in the standard download of CMSimple_XH. It also requires PHP ≥ 5.3.0 with the JSON extension.
Download
The lastest release is available for download on Github.
Installation
The installation is done as with many other CMSimple_XH plugins. See the CMSimple_XH wiki for further details.
- Backup the data on your server.
- Unzip the distribution on your computer.
- Upload the whole directory pagemanager/ to your server into CMSimple_XH's plugins/ directory.
- Set write permissions to the subdirectories css/, config/ und languages/.
- Browse to Pagemanager's administration (Plugins → Pagemanager), and check if all requirements are fulfilled.
Settings
The plugin's configuration is done as with many other CMSimple_XH plugins in the website's back-end. Select Plugins → Pagemanager.
You can change the default settings of Pagemanager_XH under Config. Hints for the options will be displayed when hovering over the help icon with your mouse.
Localization is done under Language. You can translate the character strings to your own language if there is no appropriate language file available, or customize them according to your needs.
The look of Pagemanager_XH can be customized under Stylesheet.
Usage
This plugin is used exclusively in CMSimple_XH's backend. It is started by clicking Pages in the administration menu. Now you see a view of your site's structure, that basically resembles the sitemap. However, it is possible to open and close page branches in this view, so you don't loose overview of even extensive websites. You can open or close those by clicking on the small markers left to the page, or by double clicking their titles.
Above the tree view of your website's pages you find Pagemanager_XH's toolbar. The toolbar is particularly useful, if your browser doesn't allow Pagemanager_XH's context menu to popup. Note that you can disable the toolbar in the plugin's configuration.
Rearrangement of the structure of your pages is done by drag & drop; when dragging according markers are shown, so you can see where the page will be inserted when dropping it. If it is not possible to drag to a certain page, because it would result in e.g. a recursive page structure, or the resulting nesting level would be too high, this will be signalled by a cross or you will simply be not allowed to drop there. So carefully watch the markers, until you get a feeling how the drag & drop works. If you hold down the CTRL key while dragging, the result will be a copy instead of a move operation.
Additional functionality is available in the toolbar or through the context menu (click the right mouse button on the page). You can add new pages, rename or remove existing ones (if you delete the selected page, all it's subpages will be deleted as well.), use the common clipboard functions as an alternative to drag & drop, and navigate directly to a page, either in edit or view mode. Note that functionality that is currently unavailable is disabled. For instance, most of the functionality requires that a page is selected; if no page is selected, these functions are disabled (greyed out). Another example is the paste → inside function, which is not available if the page in the clipboard should be pasted into itself.
The checkboxes to the left of the pages allow you to view and change their publishing state. You can configure if they refer to 'Published?' or 'Show in menu?'. If this setting is empty (what is the default), no checkboxes are shown.
Duplicate headings are marked by a warning icon. It's best to fix these right away. Newly created pages will be shown with a filled folder icon until the next save, to better distinguish them from old pages. Pages that can't be renamed because their headings contain additional markup are marked with a tag icon; it is okay to have such pages, but if you want to remove the additional markup you have to do this in the editor.
The possiblitly to copy whole substructures might not seem resonable at first sight, but it could be useful, e.g. if you've got a gallery on those pages, because all content and meta data of these pages will be copied too. So it is possible to adjust details afterwards.
Note that there is no undo or cancel functionality. If you've totally mixed up your page structure simply refresh your browser's view without saving before. Your old page structure will be presented again.
Limitations
Irregular page structures
It is possible that your existing website has an irregular page
structure. E.g. after an <h1> heading immediately follows an <h3>
heading without an <h2> heading in between. Such irregularities in
your page structure might have unintentionally been introduced while you
were manually editing the page structure in the editor (e.g. changing
headings, deleting pages), but it is possible that this feature is used
by your system for a special purpose.
Anyhow, Pagemanager can't handle such irregular page structures, and if it detects it, it shows a message and offers you to fix it. If the irregularity was introduced accidentially, you may safely confirm and go on. Otherwise (or if you're not sure) take a backup of the contents file before you proceed, save the fixed structure from Pagemanager, and carefully check, if everything still works as expected.
jQuery
Pagemanager_XH may not work in installations with jQuery dependent plugins/addons/templates that don't use jQuery4CMSimple, but import their own jQuery library. This won't get fixed (as it's not possible to fix it in all cases), because all developers are advised to use only jQuery4CMSimple together with all their jQuery based code for CMSimple_XH. So offending extensions should be updated!
Drag & Drop in Internet Explorer
There are known issues regarding drag & drop operations in Internet Explorer. Particularly, moving or copying a page inside another page doesn't work with the default admin menu. The cause is a limitation in jQuery. Either use the "clipboard" functionality, upgrade to Edge (or another browser), or use an alternative admin menu.
Troubleshooting
Report bugs and ask for support either on Github or in the CMSimple_XH Forum.
License
Pagemanager_XH is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Pagemanager_XH is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantibility or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Pagemanager_XH. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
© 2011-2019 Christoph M. Becker
Czech translation © 2011-2014 Josef Němec
Danish translation © 2011-2014 Jens Maegaard
Dutch translation © 2014 Emile Bastings
Estonian translation © 2014 Alo Tanavots
French translation © 2011-2014 Patrick Varlet
Italian translation © 2014 Milko Dalla Battista
Slovak translation © 2011-2014 Dr. Martin Sereday
Credits
This plugin uses jsTree. Many thanks to Ivan Bozhanov, the developer of this library. jsTree uses jQuery. Many thanks to all developers of this JavaScript framework. jQuery is made available for CMSimple_XH by jQuery4CMSimple. Many thanks to Holger Irmler, the author of this plugin.
The proton theme for jsTree is a slightly modified version of jsTree Bootstrap Theme. Thanks for publishing this nice theme under MIT license.
This plugin uses Font Awesome by Dave Gandy. Many thanks for making this great iconic font and CSS toolkit available under a GPL friendly license.
The plugin icon is designed by Everaldo Coelho. Many thanks for publishing this icon under GPL.
Many thanks to the community at the CMSimple_XH forum for tips, suggestions and testing. Particularly I want to thank snafu, who's early feedback encouraged me to go on with Pagemanager_XH. Many thanks to Ulrich, who found a severe bug (and some minor issues) and helped to fix it by providing detailed information on what's happened. And many thanks to Gert for some bugfixes and translations and many valuable hints. I also want to thank Martin, whose report about problems with the context menu inspired the addition of the toolbar, and Tata who inspired the "scrolling" toolbar.
And last but not least many thanks to Peter Harteg, the "father" of CMSimple, and all developers of CMSimple_XH without whom this amazing CMS wouldn't exist.