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Using MIGXdb Grid Views for Child Resource Management
MIGXdb grid views gave developers a more data-oriented way to manage related content than the standard resource tree alone.
This follow-up note expanded on the GridEditor discussion by pointing at a MIGXdb-based approach for managing child records in a grid. The screenshots in the donor made the appeal obvious: instead of opening each child item separately, editors could work against a structured table.
What made this valuable
- related records stayed visible in one place
- the editing flow felt closer to data management than page management
- teams could model content sets that did not fit a plain tree very well
For Evo-oriented readers, the takeaway is less about MIGXdb itself and more about the workflow principle: if the content behaves like a dataset, give editors a dataset-oriented UI.
Source: original community announcement.
RelativeTVList: A Better Way to Work with Large Related TV Datasets
How RelativeTVList offered a more practical way to handle large related datasets in Evolution CMS when ordinary TV option lists became too heavy.
GridEditor: Editing MODX Resources in a Grid Interface
A look at GridEditor for MODX, why grid-based editing appealed to content teams, and how it related to other structured editing tools like MIGXdb.