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timmyomahony / craft-matrix-field-preview

Configure a screenshot preview for all your matrix field blocks, giving your clients a better publishing experience.
https://plugins.craftcms.com/matrix-field-preview
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Simplify configuration across environments #18

Closed timmyomahony closed 2 years ago

timmyomahony commented 4 years ago

The plugin uses the settings page to configure fields. This is by design as the preview fields are really a "once-off" configuration step, not something that should be done regularly (or be visible to end users). For the plugin to work we use a custom database table as well as the Craft assets to save images.

Usually, on staging/production you would hide the settings page from users. But this means it will be difficult to configure the plugin from staging/production. You can either

1) Enable settings temporarily on production and configure the plugin there 2) Configure the plugin locally then do a database dump/restore as well as copying over assets from one instance to another

We've got another plugin craft-remote-sync to help with approach 2

We could potentially create an import/export approach, but this would be a big feature. For the moment, approach 1 or 2 will have to suffice

timmyomahony commented 4 years ago

We're a step closer to configuration on staging/production with 1.2.0 as the settings pages can now be accessed independently of the settings section (which isn't accessible when allowAdmin = false). We don't want to add a menu item like other plugins though as you should really only access these matrix field settings now and again

timmyomahony commented 2 years ago

Closing for now, as this doesn't seem to be an issue for most users. Please comment if having to configure while admin is off on production/staging sites is a pain.

DTesch-Reem commented 2 years ago

As of 3.0.0 the Settings-Page cannot be accessed independently anymore. Configuring while admin is off on production/staging sites is not ideal, please consider adding a menu button.

timmyomahony commented 2 years ago

Do you mean accessing it directly from a URL? Is the use case here accessing it on production, when the settings are hidden and allowAdminChanges is false?

Edit: I've replied to the above separate issue.

DTesch-Reem commented 2 years ago

Do you mean accessing it directly from a URL? Is the use case here accessing it on production, when the settings are hidden and allowAdminChanges is false?

Yes i am trying to access the plugin settings on a production environment, but it is not possible, because of this error message: "Unauthorized Administrative changes are disallowed in this environment."