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Two admin-side requests
Please point me to the enlightening threads if I’ve overlooked them. :)
- Expand/contract option for “More” functions in Write panel: I would like to see a convenient check box under the “More” section of the Write panel that lets you indicate whether to keep the More functions expanded (in view) or not (collapsed). The tick box should be the first control under the More header and not in view when functions are collapsed. A plugin seems overkill to provide this simple option in context. (If this is not possible, then the default should be expanded and a plugin should be used — for those who want it — to collapse the More functionality.
- Multiple Section edits with a single save: The ability to save several section changes at once in the Sections panel (e.g., indicating different page/style assignments). After several years of using Txp, I still make changes to several sections at once and click a save button thinking they all save in one shot. I’m always annoyed when rediscovering that’s not the case and have to go back and make the individual change/save steps. (I suspect you then consolidate many Save buttons to just one, though keeping them in context for those times a single Section is edited is probably not harmful.)
Last edited by Destry (2008-10-26 10:41:57)
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#2 2008-10-26 10:46:11
- FireFusion
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Re: Two admin-side requests
+1
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#3 2008-10-26 12:19:57
- gomedia
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Re: Two admin-side requests
Destry wrote:
Multiple Section edits with a single save:
… and maybe an admin layout change: get rid of some of the white space between the section settings so that we can see more of them on the screen at once.
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#4 2008-10-26 12:41:46
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Re: Two admin-side requests
It could be more like the new 4.0.7 users tab.
This would reduce space but it wouldn’t solve the multi edit thing.
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I agree with Firefusion that the sections tab should be more like the other tabs that show lists, one line per section in a big table with multi-edit functionality.
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ruud wrote:
sections tab should be more like the other tabs that show lists, one line per section in a big table with multi-edit functionality.
Works for me, assuming “multi-edit functionality” means many edits with one save. :)
Last edited by Destry (2008-10-26 17:20:47)
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Re: Two admin-side requests
Yes and no. Some things don’t work with multi edit. You can perform actions like: delete, make searchable, put on frontpage… but not things like changing name, title (anything that uses text input fields). Those things would require editing an individual section (similar to how it works for categories).
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#8 2008-10-26 18:12:57
- redbot
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Re: Two admin-side requests
ruud wrote:
I agree with Firefusion that the sections tab should be more like the other tabs that show lists, one line per section in a big table with multi-edit functionality.
FYI net-carver’s plugin sed_section_fields – among other things – does handle the sections tab very nicely (through jquery – in a totally different way from the other tabs).
In fact, IMHO the sections tab can and should be different from the other “list” tabs because there are a few plugins that add other options to the standard section tab.
So if there will be a “big table” by default I fear there will be a very big (and not so nice – think horizzontal scrolling) table once such plugins are installed (for example sed_section_fields and the MLP pack).
Anyway, maybe you want to take a look at how sed_section_fields work and consider to “steal” some code from this plugin. Just a thought.
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Those plugins could easily be rewritten to work on the page for editing an individual section.
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#11 2008-10-26 20:10:01
- redbot
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Re: Two admin-side requests
ruud, Jukka,
Yes you are right, I was confused by the “multi-edit functionality” request and didn’t read ruud’s answer to Destry.
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Sounds like a plan.
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Destry wrote:
Expand/contract option for “More” functions in Write panel: I would like to see a convenient check box under the “More” section of the Write panel that lets you indicate whether to keep the More functions expanded (in view) or not (collapsed). The tick box should be the first control under the More header and not in view when functions are collapsed. A plugin seems overkill to provide this simple option in context. (If this is not possible, then the default should be expanded and a plugin should be used — for those who want it — to collapse the More functionality.
I was just self-reminded about my “Advanced Options” section being displayed in the Write panel. I’m currently using Wilshire’s rss_admin_show_adv_opts to do this, but it would make more sense to have a check box for this one too, consistent as described with the one noted above. I, and others, could then run with one less plugin, though that’s not really the point. The point is to put this simple option in context where it makes sense to have it.
Last edited by Destry (2008-11-15 23:59:27)
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Destry wrote:
.. but it would make more sense to have a check box for this one too, consistent as described with the one noted above.
I’d prefer to simply remember the last state, either as a cookie (per-user) or as a hidden preference (per-site, behaves like the current plugin solutions). No user interface at all is even better than any cleverly placed checkbox.
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Eliminate the checkbox is better still. The main objective being to make it possible to manage the states (and eliminate the plugin). :)
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