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#1 2007-05-28 15:17:54
- cssboy
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More batch editing options for articles
Making the batch tasks on the ‘articles’ tab user-modifiable (perhaps through the admin -> preferences -> advanced page?) to include any article publishing option would be really awesome. I’m not sure how this would work with unlimited custom fields, but it definitely seems worth looking into.
Thoughts?
(Edit: updated discussion topic. -Mary)
Last edited by Mary (2007-05-29 00:35:11)
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Re: More batch editing options for articles
What are you referring to by “…any article publishing option…”?
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#3 2007-05-28 18:34:40
- cssboy
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Re: More batch editing options for articles
Specifically, the ‘Override form’, ‘Article Markup’, and ‘Excerpt Markup’ options. Basically, anything that is an option-style input on the article tab.
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Re: More batch editing options for articles
I understand. In which situation would one make good use of such batch editing capabilites? From my point of view, I’ve never met a situation which required me to change the Textile handling of a bunch of articles at once…
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#5 2007-05-28 20:25:03
- cssboy
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Re: More batch editing options for articles
I built a custom form which injects a bit of unique HTML into the top of each Product page, and then outputs the body of the article.
I’m using dynamenus plugin, so the sub-navigation is determined automatically by articles in each section.
I then had to go through ~25 articles and change the ‘Override form’ option to output the new ‘products’ form.
I can clarify with examples if needed.
Also, I think it would be useful to let the user decide what kinds of batch edits are and are not allowed, most likely by user permission level. The admin page could fetch a list of possibilities from the database, and then let the user turn batch editing ‘on’ and ‘off’ via radio buttons.
Make sense?
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Re: More batch editing options for articles
Now I understand. I resorted to SQL on such rare occasions.
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#7 2007-05-28 21:13:20
- cssboy
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Re: More batch editing options for articles
SQL does the job fine, but it requires you to know how to write SQL.
To me, the point of an elegant CMS is to allow you access and give you simple yet fine-grained control over these features if and when the need should arise.
I would love to see something like this make its way into the next release of Txp.
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