We have an HTML site that we converted to another CMS years ago. Our client wants to move to the latest version of that particular CMS, the problem is that the new version does not support many of the add-ons that we had acquired over the years - so now a dead horse and they are treading water for the time being.
They have bought into moving to MODX…
We have been using MODX for some time and are quite familiar with it - the goal is to move this client as well as other clients to MODX.
We have an element that I’ll call a “feature area”. in this feature area the HTML uses icons to display a visual icon. We want to do the same thing with MODX and FA with TVs, but cannot figure out how to install FA and use a TV to allow users to pick an FA icon.
On the “feature item” we have an icon upper left or right, a title and a text area below it. We can do a TV with the Title and Text area, but cannot figure out how to allow user to select an icon (want FA) . We’ve created a Migx TV and reference our TV, but no luck with the “FA TV” idea. We
Can’t see how to upload an image so here is an excerpt from the original HTML (which we are using to migrate to MODX):
*** this is handled by our css
*** this is the icon - want to use FA...
A HEADING....
*** have a TV that splits this from the content below
EXAMPLE TEXT....
*** split from above header as separate text
We are NOT Fred ready yet, but will be moving in that direction at some time late.
It also sounds like ContentBlocks might be a good fit for you. Not specifically for your icons (although those solutions can be integrated there as well) but in general to give your client layout and content templates to work with.
Should have also mentioned that we are NOT “hard core phpers”, we know enough to be dangerous but that is our limitation. We rely mainly on the Core Product and known good add-ons .
The extra Superboxselect (on its own) can be used as a TV type to select multiple resources or users. Similar to the built-in type “Listbox (Multi-Select)”. But it uses AJAX to filter the options during selection, and you can reorder the selected items afterwards.
The extra SuperBoxFontawesome adds the functionality to select FA icons.
To use it, create a new TV. Set the “Input Type” to “SuperBoxSelect”. Then choose “FontAwesome Icons” in the dropdown “Type:” (also in the tab “Input Options”).
Thanks for the detailed info. Just tried to install FontawesomeForMODX and got this error: Could not download and create transport package with signature: fontawesomeformodx-
No issues with any other packages. All google searches suggest mysql is possiblt segfaulting or running out of ram. Nothing wrong with mysql as every other package installed. Could it be a result of Fred being install with FA for Fred???