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When will it be possible to quickly edit a page via an edit button / link at the frontend page if logged in as admin-user at the backend? This is a standard feature on all major CMSes, as it saves a lot of time and should be easy to implement.

Due to removal of the {edit} tag and the editcontent.php script it seems we have lost this capability in V.2.0.

Please (!!!!!!) give us back this valuable feature!

Never used this, but I think you want a edit button that links to the page in cmsms backend? You can use your browser cookie and the content_id for this.

Check if the cookie is present and show the button:
{if $smarty.cookies._sx_ != ''}show{/if}

The link url:
{root_url}/admin/editcontent.php?_sx_={$smarty.cookies._sx_}&content_id={$content_id}

With a bit of inline styling to have at the right top of the page and open in new tab:
{if $smarty.cookies._sx_ != ''}<a href="{root_url}/admin/editcontent.php?_sx_={$smarty.cookies._sx_}&content_id={$content_id}" style="position:absolute;top:0;right:20px;background:#fff;padding:8px 15px;border:1px #ddd dotted;margin-top: -2px;color:#333;z-index:9999;" target="_blank">edit</a>{/if}

You can put this in a Global Content Block and put this GCB before the <__body> tag in your template(s).

Update: Sorry, see that they changed the url's, cookies etc. in 2.0. Will try to get it working there as soon as I have 2.0 working.

Check out the CGActionBar module.

Or the simple version http://www.cmscanbesimple.org/blog/floa ... -edit-link

@Rolf: Thanks for the code, works great .

flmm wrote:@Rolf: Thanks for the code, works great .

Thanks to calguy1000, he wrote it

Rolf must be mad at me, that link does a '403 Forbidden' for me, his whole site does...

Not just you ... but I think it has to do with either a particular version of FF, or a plugin of it... I can access with any other browser, or by changing my current FF User Agent... probably a scrip that tries to redirect mobiles, or something?

AH, I just installed adblocker plus to try to cut down on crap loading in the background on sites, might have something to do with it...

It's not that, I just disabled it and tried, still no go...

Upgrade FF! it did it for me. I just don't know why it blocked me before though...

Dr.CSS wrote:Rolf must be mad at me...

As if that would be possible...

calguy1000 wrote:Check out the CGActionBar module.

The CGActionBar does not seem to work with V.2.0.1.1. After installing CGActionBar all frontend webpages are blank and appear only after an explicit F5 refresh. Tested with a clean V.2.0.1 installation upgraded to V.2.0.1.1.

The Edit Button code at http://www.cmscanbesimple.org/blog/floa ... -edit-link mentioned by Rolf does not work either because editcontent.php is no longer available in CMSMS V.2.0

The CGActionBar does not seem to work with V.2.0.1.1

Works fine for me, just tested.

It took about 2 minutes to fix the edit-content thing for 2.0.
Will release in the next few days.