Browsing Andchir's blog i found an interesting approach of managing resources via module with only three lines of code! :)
It's not perfect, but may be an convenient way of handling many resources without going through the site tree.
okay, let's say your News (or Blog) section is within the container "News" (resource ID 12 in my example). Go to "Modules" -> "Manage Modules" ->"New Module" -> name it e.g. "News" and enter the following code:
$news_id = 12; //ID of your container
setcookie('webfxtab_childPane', 1, time()+3600, '/');
$modx->sendRedirect("index.php?a=3&id=$news_id",0,"REDIRECT_HEADER");
save it, then refresh the page (maybe you need to log out & in), and you'll see a new module section called "News". Click on it and you see the module with all resources listed:
you can also access the listing by right-clicking the resource in the tree and selecting "Resource Overview". Nested container resources can be accessed by clicking on "View" in the listing.
One drawback of this approach is, that after saving a resource you won't get back to the listing where you started from ... but maybe someone knows how to improve the module-code to fix this.
btw. you can set the number of listed resources for pagination in "Tools" -> "Configuration" -> "Inerface & Features" -> "Number of Results"
anyway, i think this is pretty clever (with only three lines of code!)
cheers, j
ah, almost forgot ... there's also this approach in the making by the japanese MODx community. Ideally this would also include a different caching strategy in order to avoid MODx'es resource limitation.
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