Comments on: Artificial Intelligence and Repetitive Tasks in a CMS

By: nobody

nobody — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:11:10 +0000

I find it annoying, but you might look at http://drupal.org/project/admin_hover

By: Drupal Modules: Content « Web Developer

Drupal Modules: Content « Web Developer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:10:08 +0000

[...] Another is an attempt to check one of the items (#5 on my list actually) off the wish list on my blog. It was coded in about 30min, and adds a feature that’s been bugging me for quite some [...]

By: Lennart

Lennart — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:06:03 +0000

Oh tnx for http://drupal.org/project/addanother – module! I was looking for something like this!

By: In the eyes of Robin Monks » Add Another: A New Drupal Module That Just Makes Sense

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:44:34 +0000

[...] my wishlist last month, one of the items I had on my list that didn’t already have a solution, was the ability to [...]

By: christefano

christefano — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:09:03 +0000

Although I don’t agree with many of the “shoulds” on this list, sharing solutions to these kinds of usability issues and oversights is important. Thanks for posting this!

I hope that you update this list with solutions that are currently available (like the jGrowl and Hotkey modules). That’s what I’m doing with a list of usability problems I wrote about recently:

Worst case scenarios for new Drupal administrators
http://exaltations.net/node/2187

Meanwhile, for the first item in your list, I recommend the “Populate Form Fields” command in the Web Developer extension for Firefox:

Web Developer
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

By: lauras (Laura Scott)

lauras (Laura Scott) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:27:39 +0000

Recommended: @robinmonks on some suggestions for improving the Drupal UI. xlnt! http://is.gd/c3I9

By: jon

jon — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:51:32 +0000

@Garrett

1. Select all only selects all matching nodes on that page of results. If you have more nodes matching that can fit on a single page you’re not selecting all the matching nodes.

2&3. If you have the need to create multiple similar content types, where 10 fields are the same but 2 aren’t, this could be useful.

4. I don’t think we’re talking about views admin in a block, just when you create a views block you can set page visibility from the views admin and not the default block admin.

6. I don’t get the advantage of either.

By: Rowan

Rowan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:44:05 +0000

We’ve tried the ‘edit links show on hover’ for blocks and views and all our developers/designers found it so annoying that we just removed the functionality altogether.

It doesn’t help when you do heavy themeing of the blocks and views either, as the edit links could end up anywhere. It gets even worse when the hover links cover up certain menu links, thus interrupting your workflow.

By: Guy Saban

Guy Saban — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:39:41 +0000

I think 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 14, 15, 17 are all good ideas. Some of them will require a good rethink of structuring/sorting the some admin page layouts.

By: merlinofchaos

merlinofchaos — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:00:14 +0000

Can you tell me a use case for bulk view cloning? I’m not sure it’s really feasible, since you still have to change a view you’ve cloned, and cloning lots at once leaves you in kind of an odd position where you have many copies that don’t have a plan (kind of like the cylons).