I make a Rails App, where admin can generate the homepage of the App (item positions, adding new items, deleting others, etc). I know that I have to store it in DB. But I am not really sure what I am supposed to store in the table.
So, in Admin page I want to make the edit homepage with drop and drag menu. What is the best way to do that?
The answer is it depends - If you are providing the admin an interface to edit home page with drag and drop or delete specific content, then you should store html contents of that page in DB and if you are giving only reference to edit then you should store those references only. But i will go for storing html contents. And again it completely depends on your requirement and you are the best person to understand and implement that.
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I'm brand new to rails, and have inherited an app I'm trying to make modifications to; it uses activeadmin - which seems nice, but is a bit opaque to me at the moment.
The show page - the page that shows a detailed, single record - doesn't seem to be generated by anything I can find. I found the file dealing with the list of all records, but can't find what's actually generating the details.
I need to add some custom info to this page that's not directly linked to the record in the database itself basically group of related resources.
What file am I looking for? Or do I need to create one somewhere? The listing page is in admin/users.rb
You want to edit admin/users.rb.
http://activeadmin.info/docs/6-show-screens.html
The above link documents how to customize the show page.
I know my question might be ovbious for some of you, but I'm not sure how to do it, and I can't find it on google, probably because I'm not using the right keywords.
I'm using the latest rails. On my view I have a table generated by rails. People are able to add content to that table by sending a rails form.
I want this table to be updated with newly updated values, without having to refresh the page.
For example, if user 1 sent the rails form and added a new value to the database, I want user 2 to see this update without having to refresh the page.
I would highly suggest watching the Polling for Changes - Railscast that covers exactly what you are looking for.
This essentially will cover how to use jQuery to poll the server to see if there are any changes, and apply them to the page without refreshing(ajax).
I have a web part which shows data in one of 3 different formats. The format is selected by clicking one of 3 buttons in the web part. This works fine.
A request has come through to store the last selected state so that the user does not always have to click their favourite view.
It seemed logical to define a Property and define Personalizable(PersonalizationScope.User) but this does not seem to work for most users as they only have Read rights for the page.
What is the best way forward here? Is Sharepoint the right place to store such info or should I be using my own storage?
Thanks
Using your own storage is an option but this means its some more development work for you. How about this option.
Modify your WebPart and add the option to the Web Part property.
Create a new permission level and add the following permission
Update Personal Web Parts - Update
Web Parts to display personalized
information.
This will make sure that users with read only access can only update webparts.
Step 2 will allow them to odify all webparts. You can modify each webpart and remove the following option for webparts which you dont want you users to edit.
Allow Editing in Personal View [Advanced]
This way you can lock all webparts except the one you want.
I want to modify the django admin for a particular model to provide the following behaviour.
A user make a search on the change_list page. The the user click a specific entry and he lands on the change_form for that entry. Nothing different to the usual.
Now, what I want is a mean to navigate the former search results. Basically next and previous buttons on the edit page.
What would be the best approach to implement this feature without modifying the admin site too much?
I will need to memorize the search in the user session, then when an entry is clicked I will need to known which place it has within the results to place my "cursor" accordingly. But I'm a bit in the cloud as the implementation side.
One way is to just put the next and previous button in the template for that particular model.
This can be implemented using simple javascript.
I ended writing a fully custom admin for that.
I'm working on an umbraco website just now and one of the requirements is to have a custom section in the back end that can be used to manage publish smaller micro-sites.
I have been able to create the new section and added some nodes to it. What I can't get to work is publishing them and making them viewable at the correct url.
As an example, say i have created a new section called microsite, inside that there is a folder called myportfolio. this should route to something like www.myumbracosite.com/microsite/myportfolio.
Does anyone know how to get this sort of thing working? Is it even possible to publish content from outsite of the main content section?
Any help would be greatly apprechiated.
Kind Regards
Colin G
From my understanding the custom sections are for linking to custom databases or data somewhere that needs an interface.
That said, you can use UrlRewriting and an existing content page with a macro to do something like that.
If you had a page called microsite, then using UrlRewriting you could make the parameter passed in to microsite.aspx (a content page in Umbraco) be "myportfolio".
With a user control on the microsite template it could display some content from your external database (or wherever your custom section stores it).
Not sure that's what you're looking for...
Why are you trying to create a new section for more content? The current Umbraco content area has all kinds of permissions for both users and members. Are the microsites all in the same install of Umbraco?
Another option is that the custom section could simply be used as a setup wizard for the new sites. You could create new content and users in their normal places and just use the new section to create them. It's not too hard to create content from C#, so it would probably be the same as doing it from a user control.
Could you provide a little more info?