OwnersManual

[Wishbone]

My first published module!

OwnersManual is a back-end content editor where you as the web developer can leave site-specific instructions for the client showing them how to operate the web page. Pages (how to paste, paragraphs vs new-lines, etc), calendar, blogs, which news category controls which sidebar element, whatever.

We often show users how to operate the site, spend some time on the phone, emails back-and-forth.. Now capture notes on the back-end. Editable by admins, read-only by other users.

Currently it's extremely simple.. A single page, optional Smarty processing, and the ability to change the name of the module in the menu, in case "Site Owner's Manual" doesn't fit the application you are using it for.

I plan on developing it further with client notes, multiple pages, page hierarchy, permissions-based content, etc.

Wiki page

Let me know what you think! All comments/suggestions welcome.

[uniqu3]

Great work Wishbone, going to try it out!

[Reclus]

Sounds like great idea, downloaded! Cheers!

[Decain]

Great! I think about videotutorials for create content, add photos and many more. Now I can write in Owners Manual links to videotutorials and no one will say that he lost e-mail with it. Thanks.

[Wishbone]

Now I can write in Owners Manual links to videotutorials and no one will say that he lost e-mail with it. Thanks.

If you have TinyMCE configured properly, you can embed the videos directly in the manual.

[Decain]

I don't know how many videos I make, but I think Screenr is good tool to do this. Thanks for the idea.

[Marijus]

Great module
Now I'll look forward to the next version 1.2
Thank you Wishbone

[Marijus]

How can I insert images from ulpoads folder?
I look at source code and saw that base href is admin folder so I need to put images into admin folder.

[Wishbone]

Hmm.. That's interesting. The image looks good in TinyMCE, but when you view the resulting page, it's trying to find it local to the admin directory. I might have to post-process the output and do a string replace of all image references to your uploads directory with the full path. Thanks for the catch.. I'll see what I can do.

[Wishbone]

Fixed in SVN... regular expression replace of all relative paths with absolute paths in <img/> tags.

[jd447]

excellent!

but took me a while to localize it under the CMS menu. I'm not used to go over there!

looking fwd for the next version!

cheers,

[frankmanl]

Actually, I can't find it at all...
Please, where is it located?

[edit]
Oh, I found it:

[end edit]

Frank

[M@rtijn]

Fantastic little module!

Makes documentation so much easier

One thing I found, though:
Out-of-the-box the Owners Manual is filled with the module help, but when you remove this to put your own information in, you'll have to leave the div intact.
Otherwise you can't edit the manual anymore.

[Wishbone]

Hmm.. I didn't realize that I had a div in there.. But when I remove the div, I see no issues. Can you explain further?

[pixelita]

Sweet mother of god. This is a prayer answered for all my non-techie clients. (Which is to say, all of my clients!) Thanks! {{hugs}}