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Re: drop down lists for custom fields
ok, i couldn’t resist. once i have it, i can find uses for it without much effort :D
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#99 2007-09-14 18:37:25
- marios
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Re: drop down lists for custom fields
Ok, so although I have a ton of things here on my desktop, this impressive work needed to be looked at right away.
So far only tried a simple dropdown select, which works fine, even on my hacked TXP development install.
No bugs found yet.
I can see the code is very clean and sober also.
Will try to get my fingers more at it tomorrow.
Thanks again for this great piece of work.
regards, marios
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#100 2007-09-14 19:32:41
- marios
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Re: drop down lists for custom fields
Playing around with the new Search Result function. However, it would make more sense to set up a new separate clean install, to get some consistant testing results.
Hey, I also love the TXP yellow in my article textarea on focus. So much nicer.
regards, marios
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#101 2007-09-14 19:44:12
Re: drop down lists for custom fields
Hey Marios ; ),
yes, setting up a clean install would definitely help. I know that I came with the original hack back in 2005, but a lot of things changed since then, TXP got upgraded and so on so forth. Different people will have different setups, different hacks etc., so my suggestion would be to start with a clean slate in the form of TXP 4.0.5.
Whilst people might have current TXP websites on which they would like to use this plugin, unless you have left the custom fields as they were, you might find yourself in tricky situations. I simply cannot predict how your databases looks like, so while a migration script would seem a requirement, I chose to let it out for the initial release. If enough people will require something like this, I will definitely look into it, but otherwise just shout for help and I’ll see what I can do on individual cases.
I’m just finishing off the documentation and putting the whole plugin into a proper, base64 form. All the people that contributed, expect an e-mail with the new version within the next few hours.
Cheers all!
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#102 2007-09-14 20:01:01
Re: drop down lists for custom fields
Awesome awesome awesome. I was just starting to seriously look into building exactly this. Looks fantastic donation is already on it’s way.
Great work.
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#103 2007-09-14 21:03:01
Re: drop down lists for custom fields
Looks great! Will check it out and donate tomorrow…..questions:
Can we use it on more than one site?
Is this the BIG thing you mentioned, or is there more? :-)
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#104 2007-09-14 21:06:04
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#105 2007-09-14 23:04:43
Re: drop down lists for custom fields
The demo movie is very convincing. Donation made.
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#106 2007-09-15 14:23:54
Re: drop down lists for custom fields
@hakjoon: cheers mate, let me know if it works the way you were expecting to.
@jstubbs: cheers! Yes, of course you can use it on multiple sites.
No, this is NOT the BIG thing. I simply didn’t have time to put that together as well, but it will happen at some point. Now that the plugin is out, I have a single thing to focus on in my spare time, much better than juggling.
@ricetxp: glad you’ve enjoyed it, the plugin should have reached you by now.
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#107 2007-09-15 21:52:56
Re: drop down lists for custom fields
After playing with this for a while, I find it super powerful and a snap to use. Thanks, and kudos to gerhard.
Everyone else… make some donations. Gerhard wants to recoup some time before he dives into v2. which I’ve heard will add some much more powerful features… almost xPattern-alicious.
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#108 2007-09-16 06:30:35
Re: drop down lists for custom fields
gerhard wrote
Whilst people might have current TXP websites on which they would like to use this plugin, unless you have left the custom fields as they were, you might find yourself in tricky situations. I simply cannot predict how your databases looks like, so while a migration script would seem a requirement, I chose to let it out for the initial release. If enough people will require something like this, I will definitely look into it, but otherwise just shout for help and I’ll see what I can do on individual cases.
Hi gerhard can you please clarify what you mean when you say “unless you have left the custom fields as they were”.
I use custom fields extensively and your plugin seems that it could be of great use but i would hate to have to edit about 700 articles in order to use it.
Yiannis
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