CMSContext -customize your MT dashboard without Perl programming-

<MTCMSContext>

    <MTEntryTitle escape="html">

</MTCMSContext>

With this code you can display a entry title on your edit-entry screen's arbitrary place.

Use block tag, "<MTCMSContex>foo bar</MTCMSContext>" in your foobar.tmpl files.

The plugin was released three years ago, and a lot of Japanese MT users have used this plugin to customize their own dashboard.

Addition to that, with this plugin, you can set your alternative template paths with each blogs and websites.

Ordinary, Movable Type can use alternative templates with the default directory, "path/to/mt/alt-tmpl".

If you locate your customized template to modify your dashboard, MT replaces default dashboard screens with modified templates which are located to alt-tmpl directory.

Though it is very useful, alt-tmpl templates are effective to all blogs of the Movable Type.

So even if you have plural blogs, you have to use a singular templates and it affects all blogs.

With "CMSContext" plugin, you can use different templates with each blogs MT has.

It is very useful when you have plural blogs and want to set different customized screens.

The image is configuration screen of CMSContext.

In the each blog's "Tools" menu" -> "plugin" -> "CMSContext" -> "Alt Template Path", you can indicate your own directory to set customized templates in the blog.

Also you can indicate your iPhone alt-tmpl directory when you log-in to MT with your iPhone. CMSContext will use alternative template referring to  iPhone's own referrer.

After the "iPhone" form, there are names of Japanese netwaork operators. So you might not have to take care for them.

Anyway, you can cutomize your own dashboard screen with this plugin at ease.

Really revolutinoary, isn't it?