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Override form - idea
Is it possible to specify which forms are to be included in this drop down?
The reason I ask it that it would be much easier to hand over a site to a client where you can give them 3-4 article layouts, which they can choose from here.
I have just been coding something similar using custom fields, but thought as this feature was already a part of the txp core, it could be possible.
Interested in all arguments :)
Cheers
Tye
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#2 2010-06-23 08:22:22
- masa
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Re: Override form - idea
Only article forms will show up there. From what I remember, you can simply categorize any forms you don’t want there as e.g. “misc.” – it won’t affect how they work.
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#3 2010-06-23 10:44:36
- uli
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Re: Override form - idea
All you can do at the moment is name your article forms so the important ones appear at the top of the list.
E.g. create an empty form whose name consists only from underslashes __________________ which makes a halfway pretty divider, and prefix any less important forms with one or more underslashes. This way they’ll appear at the bottom of the list, below the divider, and offset from the left menu edge by an indent the width of your underslashes-prefix.
Count me among the plugin prospects.
Edit: Missed Martin’s Misc proposal
Last edited by uli (2010-06-23 10:53:31)
In bad weather I never leave home without wet_plugout, smd_where_used and adi_form_links
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Re: Override form - idea
masa wrote:
Only article forms will show up there.
I already knew that, but I seem to use article forms for lots of things… maybe I should review the way I’m using forms…
I’ll have another look tomorrow – Thanks
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Re: Override form - idea
tye wrote:
I already knew that, but I seem to use article forms for lots of things… maybe I should review the way I’m using forms…
The form type won’t effect anything else than what is shown in the override form list and in the tagbuilder, and how the forms are grouped in the forms panel. The types can be used in any way you like.
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Re: Override form - idea
I actually didn’t know this – so I was lying before… I’ve just built a whole site using misc forms and just left 4 article forms for the site writer to use when publishing articles…. textpattern keeps getting better, I’m forever learning :)
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