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[request] Front and Back managed ToDo lists
Each item ‘to-do’ would be an Article. The time-stamp provides the ‘item creation date’. The section might be called todo. Custom fields would supply other criteria for each item such as due_date, owners (authors), etc… Gerard’s plugin would improve these.
Categories would supply the to-do list types (Groceries, Movies To Rent, etc…)
‘Pending’ and ‘Live’ = ‘Unfinished’ and ‘Finished’.
So all this can be done in the Back End but is very (too) tedious. However, the database setup and tags exist to build a front end display of to-do items. So, if those times could be manipulated and created in the front end, a sensible UI could solve the problem of tedious item management because the user only sees controls to create, remove, categorize, assign owner, etc…
Could a plugin be created that would have front end tags that would allow for:
- Entering an Item (Article)
- Assigning Categories to these Items
- Assigning ‘Owners’ (Person responsible to complete the task)
- Marking and item ‘Unfinished’ or ‘Finished’.
- Removing and item
- What else am I missing
Privileges plugins could do the rest with template tags to make the front end view well focused on the user that’s logged in. A delete button might only be visible to admins and owners.
Any takers on building something like this? :) Any ideas on how to achieve this with existing plugins? I know this is a pretty crazy request because it’s basically asking for a way to grab back end controls and put them in Pages. Ideally, all Article Write Tab controls would have front end tags. I know this is a tall order but I wanted to throw this out there. A ToDo list would merely be an implementation of this front-end-article-creation tag-set.
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Re: [request] Front and Back managed ToDo lists
jmd_dashboard + rvm_privileged will get you pretty far :).
Edit:
- Article custom for todos
- For the assignee, I guess you would need an author-selector plugin (dropdown).
glz_custom_fields could handle the checkboxactually, if you go with pending/live, then you don’t really need it
I think that covers it.
Last edited by jm (2008-07-30 01:46:26)
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Re: [request] Front and Back managed ToDo lists
jmd_dashboard + rvm_privileged will get you pretty far :).
Thanks Jon.
Yes those look like enough to build all the public side controls except one thing. That would be public side article creation including assigning ‘categories’ and ‘owner’ and a few other little things. Maybe I’m missing something though. Sigh I wish I would learn PHP already…
I wonder if you could use zem_contact_reborn to build an article creation form. Could one blend the 1) http request which is made upon saving an article in the admin with a 2) zem_contact_form.
This is new thinking for me but I’m taking a look at http://www.charlesproxy.com/ right now to see if I can use this tool to figure out how to find what http requests could be used along side zem_contact to produce front end article creation.
Anybody see where I’m going with this? I’m going forward somewhat blind. :)
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