MODX 3 Content area in Documents tab

[rsdesign007]

I’ve been testing and trying MODX 3 for a couple weeks before using it on any new or existing live websites.

I’ve noticed that the Content area is now only on the Document tab. That’s fine, except the Document tab now has the Publishing, Template and Behavior in Menu information in a column on the far right, rather than above the Content area.

In MODX 3 this reduces the width of the area available to edit the website content.

If you’re editing a website on a laptop rather than a large screen monitor it makes the actual Content area very narrow.

We use Content blocks in most websites we build. If you have a multicolumn layout in Content Blocks, the narrow space will make it much more difficult for our clients.

It seems odd to only have the Content area in the Document tab when the Document tab has the least amount of width space for editing the website Content.

Is there any future plan to deal with this?

Maybe moving the "Publishing, Template and Behavior in Menu" info to the Settings tab?

Or moving the Content area to it’s own tab with full width available?

Thanks,

Chris

[rsdesign007]

Mark Hamstra replied to my question on the modmore.com Content Blocks forum, so my question is resolved for using Content Blocks.

I have his reply below in case this helps anyone else.
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There’s a contentblocks.canvas_position system setting. You can set that to block to make ContentBlocks use a full-width section of its own, or tab1 or tab2 to have it move the content canvas to a separate tab.

The default value, inherit, places the canvas where the content field originally was, which is the recommended option for MODX 2.x.

For MODX 3.x, we recommend using block to give it its own dedicated space.

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Thanks,

Chris