Add "customize" tab to change layout static text and images

[Luis González]

Hi,

First of all I'm new to RoR and Refinery.

I'm trying to add a new tab in the backend so the admin can change some text and images that appear in the layout, that is, in every page.

So creating a new engine I think it doesn't make any sense for this situation. Instead I'm thinking about creating a model. The thing is I have no idea of how to create this new tab and associate it to this model...

Any Idea?

Thanks in advance

Using Refinerycms 2.1.2 and Rails 3.2.17

[Andreas Wenk]

Hi Luis,

I guess this is what you are looking for:

http://refinerycms.com/guides/changing-page-parts

Cheers

Andy

[Luis González]

Thanks,

That is not exactly what I meant. With this, you can add a section to every page and personalize it. But what I want to do is to personalize the layout.
In my case, that is the Main title of the page, a description (below the title) and a Photo. These three elements appear in every view, that is, belongs to the layout.

Haven't found a good way to do it yet. Just a workaround that works, but for sure is no the right way to do it:

I created a new Engine (customization), and create only one element in it. I get this element from the layout view and print the parts.
To edit from the backend, I changed the index view and just print the form (as with the show action), as I only need one element (I disabled the remove option, as it would break the layout).

As said,at least it works...

If anyone find a better solution please, let me know.

[bdixon]

That's basically what I would have done, especially if there are fixed number of elements. You could go a step further and assign them to various layout files... but if it isn't in scope, don't bother.

BD

[Luis González]

Thanks for your anwser ;)