Umbraco-cms: Add link to create an item under Content menu to 'Settings section'

[OwainWilliams]

I was wondering if it would be helpful to create a link to the settings section within the 'noDocumentTypes' text - "There are no allowed document types available. You must enable these in the _settings section_ under "document types"."

Currently

The text shows when you haven't setup a document type - usually on a fresh install. If the settings section was a link, a user could just click on the text to be taken to the settings section, instead of having to then navigate to the settings area.

The link would direct the user to "/umbraco/#/settings/"

[nul800sebastiaan]

@OwainWilliams Yes, that would be cool, andddd.... the message "You must enable.. " should only been shown if you have access to the settings section. This is not actually useful to show to people who can't do anything about it! :-)

[OwainWilliams]

Cool - I'll have a look in to this. I might need some help with the translation files though to know where to put the link!

Should this be done on V7 and then it will get ported to V8 or would it be useful to do it on both? @nul800sebastiaan

[nul800sebastiaan]

@OwainWilliams Have a look at this translation and note the %0% variable: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/pull/3844/files#diff-afe2906899bcedd656e05bb0e6fb20c4R836

And it's usage here, passing in a value into the variable: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/pull/3844/files#diff-7736c43054a1c5916c86566898ba3386R24

Not sure if you'd need a variable, but maybe there's a good way to dynamically get the link to the settings section, check how it's done in the info tab for editing the current doctype:

Also, this translation includes some HTML so it's in a CDATA block. The link should probably not be hardcoded in the translation file, but I'm not sure. Probably needs to be something like <a href="THELINK">{translatedLinkText}</a> and the link text coming from something like <<key alias="settingsSection">. Play with it!

You can do it in v7, we merge everything up to v8.

[OwainWilliams]

Just wondering if this is still helpful or has it been fixed but someone else. Happy to look at it again and get it done.

[nul800sebastiaan]

Go for it @OwainWilliams ! :-) 👍

[nul800sebastiaan]

@OwainWilliams whoops, looks like there's already a PR available, I missed that one!

https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/pull/5562

I'll close this as a duplicate of https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/issues/5561 (even though the other one was the dupe).

Sorry to get you all excited 🙈

[OwainWilliams]

Doh! No worries - I'll just need to find a new PR to give a go 👍