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#101 Developer Help » Web Fonts in tinyMCE4 » July 18, 2014 1:40pm
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 4
Just curious; does anyone have a solution for getting web fonts (specifically Typekit) to work in the tinyMCE editor window? I've spent as much time as I can stand researching this issue today, and none of the methods I've tried, which relied heavily upon injecting js into tinyMCE's iframe, seem to work for me. This isn't a priority, but it would be nice if the editor was truly WYSIWYG for my team.
#102 Developer Help » Adding fields to existing module » July 17, 2014 1:18pm
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 1
How should I go about adding new fields to an existing module? I created a news module, and forgot to add an author field. It looks like once the module has been created, the only fields in the UI available are Many-to-Many and Geocoding. I'm guessing this can be accomplished by adding columns manually into the database?
#103 Re: Bug Reports » Uncaught ReferenceError: CustomPhotoGallery is not defined » July 16, 2014 2:16pm
Thanks, that worked. I had commented out the demo.js include in settings.php at some point, trying to save resources. Demo.js didn't sound like something that was necessary to my site at the time 
I might have to rename that file so it's more descriptive: customphotogallery.js.
#104 Re: Bug Reports » Uncaught ReferenceError: CustomPhotoGallery is not defined » July 16, 2014 2:08pm
Yeah, I built my site on top of the demo site to take advantage of some of the work that was already done I'll take a look. Thanks.
#105 Bug Reports » Uncaught ReferenceError: CustomPhotoGallery is not defined » July 16, 2014 2:04pm
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 6
I'm getting this error when I edit my homepage gallery:
Uncaught ReferenceError: CustomPhotoGallery is not defined
I'm not sure when this started happening, it has been a while since I've tried adding or removing photos from the gallery. I can dig into this, but first I wanted to see if you might have an idea.
#106 Re: Developer Help » Custom List of Pages » July 15, 2014 4:48pm
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm trying to create. Settings seems like a good idea, thanks. It's a little more difficult for the average editor to update it that way, but I don't foresee these menus changing very often. They can just request that I take care of those changes.
#107 Developer Help » Custom List of Pages » July 15, 2014 1:29pm
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 3
How would you recommended going about creating a custom list of existing pages within the site? I have a gateway style menu which I would like to use to list a collection of pages, but I want those pages to live in their corresponding locations within the site, not underneath a Gateway menu subpage in the navigation system. Hopefully that makes sense.
#108 Feature Requests » Development Content Flags » July 10, 2014 2:10pm
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 1
This idea is out there, so take it with a grain of salt. Maybe it could spark other ideas as well. One of the frustrations I have when developing, or redesigning large websites, is the ability to monitor which pages will require something (anything) at later phases of development. For example, I'm currently working on transitioning/refreshing content from an old website into our BigTree install. As we enter content, there are certain pages that require links to content that does not exist yet. As it is, whenever we come across a word that needs to be hyperlinked, or a page that needs a form that hasn't been created yet, we'll manually enter some predefined shortcodes that we thought up:
[[hyperlink]]
[[contact]]
[[needs_content]]
It might be kind of nice if the editor included an optional development module, which could insert similar shortcodes, or somehow flag the page by pressing a button. After development, the site could run a report in the dashboard to generate a list of pages that contain one or more shortcodes/flags, so the team could begin pinpointing content that needs to be completed. As it stands, this could probably be accomplished by enabling a few checkbox field types in the content templates during development. As far as reporting goes, a simple database query could identify pages with the associated fields enabled.
However, this is probably more of a candidate for an extension, rather than being included in the core files. Maybe there is a better way of doing this, that I'm oblivious to. I'm curious to see how others deal with this as efficiently as possible.
#109 Re: Feature Requests » Media Management » July 10, 2014 12:27pm
Very cool. Can't wait to see/contribute to the extensions functionality of BigTree.
#110 Re: Developer Help » Sitemap File » July 10, 2014 12:05pm
Haha, no problem. I submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools and our custom search dashboard, and Google seems to be happy with its formatting.
#111 Re: Developer Help » Sitemap File » July 10, 2014 11:57am
Thanks Tim. This is my first experience with Google Custom Search, so I was unsure how reliable its results are. I figured it would be pretty easy to customize the sitemap generation to include the hidden files. Oddly enough, I am seeing my search page, which is hidden, in my sitemap file:
<url>
<loc>http://bigtree.____.edu/about/locations/</loc>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bigtree.____.edu/search/</loc>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bigtree.____.edu/about/our-history/</loc>
</url>
#112 Re: Feature Requests » Media Management » July 10, 2014 11:49am
The image manipulation is actually less of an issue. The current image cropping and resizing that you've built into BigTree is already really useful. The biggest thing is organization of content, and folder permissions would be icing on the cake. Like you mentioned, I imagine a tab to the file manager from within the control panel. It would have the ability to create folders, cut/copy/move assets into those folders. Perhaps I'm missing something, but once a file is added to the file manager, there is no way to move it, correct?
I know this adds a lot of difficulty to the current file management, media integration schema, but it would be very useful. Images could be assigned asset ids:
/path/to/image.jpg --> /asset.php?id=xxx
Great to hear about the multiple file uploads! This is something that I really look forward to before going live with our new site that I'm designing on BigTree. I just decided to give up a big $$$ CMS in lieu of BigTree, and this and the aforementioned feature request are some of the features that my editors are accustomed to. Some of my editors add 20+ files at a time (i.e. PDF packets for meetings). I would definitely hear about it if they had to upload each file individually. How will the multiple file upload option deal with multiple images? Specifically, cropping multiple files. Will it walk the user through a step-by-step process cropping each image individually?
#113 Re: Feature Requests » Color Picker » July 10, 2014 11:33am
I do think it would be a valuable field type for templating. I'm always looking for ways to give editors more options for customization, while staying within a predetermined visual framework. I think you're probably correct though; this might be something better added on after-the-fact. Since 4.2 will have extensions, making it an optional custom might be the way to go.
#114 Feature Requests » Media Management » July 10, 2014 2:21am
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 4
More robust media management. Perhaps a file manager in the backend that is accessible through the control panel, as opposed to being limited to file manager access while editing content. The file management could allow moving of files (assets) into organizational folders. Cut/paste or drag single or multiple files. Folder/file permissions. Image editing.
#115 Feature Requests » Color Picker » July 10, 2014 2:09am
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 2
A color picker field type would be amazing. Perhaps something that allows the site administrator to specify a palette of colors for editors to choose from, or a free-form color picker that would allow editors to choose any value they like (RGB, or Hex). This would be nice for theming elements of the site.
#116 Re: Developer Help » Sitemap File » July 9, 2014 5:47pm
Thanks, there it is. I know you use Google Custom Search pretty exclusively with BigTree CMS. Is there another method of ensuring that Google has the best index of the pages within the site, or do you just trust that their automatic crawl does a good enough job without a sitemp?
#117 Developer Help » Sitemap File » July 8, 2014 5:48pm
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 6
I read in the developer help that there is supposed to be a sitemap.xml file being generated in the ~/sites folder. I don't seem to have a sitemaps file as explained, but it would be very nice for our Google Custom Search engine. Is this functionality no longer part of the latest version of BigTree, or am I looking in the wrong location?
#118 Re: Bug Reports » Front-End Crop error » July 8, 2014 2:30pm
The code worked perfectly by the way. Thanks Tim.
#119 Bug Reports » Front-End Crop error » July 4, 2014 7:24pm
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 2
When I attempt to upload an image to a photo gallery that needs cropping through the front end "Edit Content" option, I get the following error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/core/admin/modules/pages/_front-end-crop.php on line 13
I do not get this error if I add the file through the backend, "Edit in Bigtree" option.
Thanks!
#120 Re: Developer Help » Image Crop Issues in Template/Callout » July 2, 2014 12:51pm
Thanks for all of the answers Tim! All of that sounds very logical. I'll give it a try.
#121 Developer Help » Image Crop Issues in Template/Callout » July 2, 2014 12:37pm
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 2
Hi there,
For some reason, the image cropping in a callout form I've created is cropping the images to exactly 200% of the size I specified. Is this by design? Should I just resize with CSS, and live with it, or is something else going on? It worked correctly at first, then started behaving like this at a later point. I can't think of any change I made that would have triggered this behavior.
Also, I've noticed that if I try to upload a very large photo to be cropped, it doesn't get added to the callout at all. It skips the cropping dialog completely and throws no warnings/errors, allowing the template to be saved afterward. Is there a size limit that the cropping can handle, and if so, is there a way to alert the user? I realize that this isn't the ideal method for uploading images, as they should already be sized somewhat close to the desired crop size, but not all of my editors are quite that savvy with image manipulation, and I want to make sure this is fail-proof, or they're not going be comfortable using it.
Additionally, the upload field has a generate preview prefix option, which I have specified as "preview_", but the images are not being generated.
Thanks!
#122 Bug Reports » Editing callouts - modal windows z-index issue » June 28, 2014 4:58am
- jesse.glaves
- Replies: 1
The callout modal windows (i.e. Insert Link) are opening behind the content editor windows. Apparently they have a z-index set lower than the callout editor does. This bug is reproducible in the demo site if you log in and go to the following edit page window:
http://demo.bigtreecms.org/admin/pages/ … _to_self=1
Note: I am currently using the latest version of Chrome on OSX, and have not tested this with other browsers.