micschk/silverstripe-rightsidebar

Allows adding a right-hand sidebar in the CMS to hold options/fields for the currently edited record

Silverstripe CMS Right Sidebar

Requirements

• SilverStripe CMS & Framework 4+

Overview

Allows adding a right-hand sidebar in the CMS to hold options/fields for the currently edited record. Abstracted out from the Silverstripe Blog module for use on other pages as well (blog module by ao. Michael Strong/Silverstripe), _(*1)

RightSidebar behaves like a tab (like tab it extends CompositeField)., _(*2)

Add use before class declaration:, _(*3)

use Restruct\RightSidebar\RightSidebar;

Usage (in getCMSfields):

    $fields->addFieldsToTab('Root.Main', RightSidebar::create('Options'));
    $fields->addFieldsToTab('Root.Main.Options', array(
        $publishDate = DatetimeField::create("PublishDate", "Publish Date"),
        TextField::create('Author')
    ));

    // Add to Main tab (fixed width) and render an outer template to deal with our custom layout
    $fields->addFieldsToTab('Root.Main', RightSidebar::create('Options'));
    $fields->fieldByName('Root')->setTemplate('Restruct\RightSidebar\Forms\RightSidebarInner');

    // OR: Add it full-screen (collapsible) and render an outer template to deal with our custom layout
    $fields->insertBefore(RightSidebar::create('Options'), 'Root');
    $fields->fieldByName('Root')->setTemplate('Restruct\RightSidebar\Forms\RightSidebar');