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Using Doc Manager

The Doc Manager is useful if you need to make changes to your pages/resources in bunches, such as changing the template for several pages in your site in one convenient step. Here is what you can accomplish using Doc Manager.

  • Change Template
  • Apply Template Variables to Resources
  • Change Document Permissions
  • Sort Menu Items (this sorts the menu order on the front end, not in your Modx manager site tree)
  • Set Document Publish/Unpublish Dates
  • Miscellaneous Document Settings
  • Set Authors and Editors

Basically, changing settings using Doc Manager is the same process regardles of the setting you are choosing:

  1. To get to Doc Manager in your Modx manager, click the MODULES tab then click DOC MANAGER.
  2. Choose a tab for the settings you want to change.
  3. Change the settings by selecting one of the various options, such as clicking the button next to a new template.
  4. Now that you have the settings in place, specify which documents to apply those settings to by filling in the box underneath "Specify a Range of Document IDs". Use the help key provided for instructions on how to specifiy the range of documents you wish to edit.
  5. Click SUBMIT.