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#1 2011-05-26 16:31:23

sacripant
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From: Rhône — France
Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 479
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[request] Manipulate order of Sections and Categories by Drag&Drop

Hello Txp Community

As stm_article_order for sorting articles by sections, i would be able to change the order of sections and categories directly from the sections tab and categories tab.

I’m not a PHP/JS programmer, but I handle a little Jquery.

And as a demonstration is worth a thousand words, I captured with “Scrapbook” the section tab and categories tab. I was amused to customize the pages to modify the interface.

Section tab with collapsibles and Drag&Drop sort

Categories tab (only articles categories) with collapsibles and Drag&Drop sort

Is missing a button to save the position and probably other stuff.

What do you think ?

If this idea appeals to a programmer ?

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#2 2011-05-26 16:59:44

jelle
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Registered: 2006-06-07
Posts: 165

Re: [request] Manipulate order of Sections and Categories by Drag&Drop

Brilliant!

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#3 2011-05-28 02:56:06

gomedia
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Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 1,373

Re: [request] Manipulate order of Sections and Categories by Drag&Drop

sacripant wrote:

What do you think ?

Looks like a great idea & maybe you should suggest it for the new TXP5 admin.

In the meantime, the next item on my list for adi_menu is to attempt a drag & drop interface for ordering sections. Although, I can’t make any promises on when or if …

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#4 2011-05-29 21:38:14

JimJoe
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From: United States
Registered: 2010-01-30
Posts: 573
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Re: [request] Manipulate order of Sections and Categories by Drag&Drop

Looks interesting.

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#5 2011-06-01 10:36:38

sacripant
Plugin Author
From: Rhône — France
Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 479
Website

Re: [request] Manipulate order of Sections and Categories by Drag&Drop

@jelle & JimJoe

Thanks, I am glad to interest of other users

@Gocom

I do not think textpattern should be imposed a javascript user interface but a super flexible html markup.
Maybe it would be nice txp5 improves the html markup (I do not like the use of “non-breaking spaces” to indent) to enable a ease development of Plug’ins for propose different interfaces depending on the needs :

  • Separate lists of categories in the tabs to gain space.
  • Choose the parent category at the same time to create a category

As I am not a developer, and I’m not ready to become one. The only thing I can do is offer my ideas to the community. It’s frustrating, but I participate.

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#6 2011-06-01 10:54:23

gomedia
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Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 1,373

Re: [request] Manipulate order of Sections and Categories by Drag&Drop

HTML5 Drag & drop – we can only wait and see!

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