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Setup a way for clients to edit web app items on frontend?

Aug 29, 2012 8:05 PM

Hi, I have a client that has a huge web app, with so many items that the web app usually takes a few minutes to list the first 20 items, or fails to load outright. But this is the page where the admin can search the webapp items to edit them.

 

I need a way to allow editing of web app items. Can it be done on the frontend somehow?

 

there is a nice search bar that is usually located on the web app list page in the admin area, where you can easily find a web app item to load and edit, however, because my web app has so many items,this page takes so long to load if at all, that i am stuck for a way to edit a single web app item now.

 

I see we can use the tag {tag_edit} for allowing users to esit web app items on the frontend, can this be used somehow on the frontend search results, but just for an admin?

 

Or alternatively,is there a way in the admin to search for a web app item, without loading the initial list of web apps?

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  • mario_gudelj
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    1. mario_gudelj,
    Aug 29, 2012 9:18 PM   in reply to Rich Keller
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    You need to add {tag_edit} to a list layout, create a page inside the secure zone and place {module_webappscustomer,....} on to it. Create a CRM record, give it a username and password and subscribe to a secure zone, then go to one of the web app items and assign it to that CRM record. Log in to a secure zone from the front end and the above module will list the item that's assigned to the CRM record you are logged in with and render edit link. Clicking on the edit link will take you to the edit layout and form where you can edit that item.

     

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    Aug 29, 2012 10:30 PM   in reply to mario_gudelj
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    ye, however this webapp is all client added items, is there away to allow admin  or add a userand assign a user to all web app items, then whendoing a frontend search,  adding the tag-edit tag, they can do a search and edit a result?

     
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    Aug 30, 2012 4:25 PM   in reply to Rich Keller
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    Maybe you can check "Anyone can edit items:" in web app settings to allow anyone who belongs to the secure zone to edit the item. Although I'm having problems understanding what you wrote above I don't think it can be done, because you said " they can do a search and edit a result" and the search module will not display the edit link. Only {module_webappcusotmer,....} will do so.

     

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    Aug 30, 2012 5:21 PM   in reply to mario_gudelj
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    oh, i thought the edit tag could be placed in any list layout, if the user was logged in,

     

    like on the frontend public side, i have a search form for a web app (its a phone book), a search takes you to the initial search results, which uses the list layout, i thought i could add the tag_edit tag in the list layout so its available as a link in the search results, but for security the link only works if logged in?

     
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  • Liam Dilley
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    5. Liam Dilley,
    Aug 30, 2012 5:44 PM   in reply to Rich Keller
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    Yep

    You have to be logged in becasue these could be assigned to specific owners for example So can only work when logged in. If open to all your web apps would be full of porn and illegal downloads in no time

     
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    Aug 30, 2012 7:29 PM   in reply to Liam Dilley
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    yes, i would still require a login to edit though. the general public would not be logged in so wouldn't that keep web app items un-editable even if they clicked edit?

     

    Does the edit tag let anyone edit a web app item, logged in or out, if i add the tag to the list layout, and switch it on in the web app?

     

    I was thinking even if i add the tag-edit tag, i have no login form anyway, so what would happen for not logged n users if they clicked edit? or would the edit link not show up unless they are logged in, if so that would be great, i would have a hidden login page just for admins, and they could login then surf like a normal user, but have the ability to edit a item?

     

    the scenario would be: one admin user can edit all web app items, one admin can only login, general public can't log in. Both general public and admin user use the frontend web app search the same, if i add the tag_edit tag to the list layout template, what can the logged in admin do or see, what can the general not logged in public do or see with the edit link?

     
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    Sep 22, 2012 2:01 PM   in reply to mario_gudelj
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    How do you assign a web app item to a CRM Record?

     
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  • mario_gudelj
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    Sep 23, 2012 4:25 PM   in reply to scottdouglas999
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    Hi Scott,

     

    Go to the web app item you wish to assign to a CRM record and under More Options you'll find Submitted By section and Edit link. If you click on that edit link you'll be able to search for the CRM record and assign an item to it.

     

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    9. Rich Keller,
    Sep 25, 2012 1:11 PM   in reply to mario_gudelj
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    well, its not that i want to give many people access to some web app items, i want to give one person access to edit all of them, it will only ever be one person, and i don;t want to give them access to admin, i was thinking a form to edit web apps, and only select fields within the web app item, basically a web app edit page in a secure zone, that allows editing of all web apps, like an editor account, but not in the admin, on the frontend. I'll only ever give out access to one person.

     
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    10. mario_gudelj,
    Sep 26, 2012 9:28 PM   in reply to Rich Keller
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    The only way to do that is to check "Anyone can edit items:" in web app settings, but then anyone with access to the secure zone will be able to edit them.

     

    -m

     
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