Dynamic Content Stucture menu (AJAX) prototype

Tuesday 21 June 2005 11:54:30 pm

This is not really AJAX technology, just asynchronous javascript, but its allways nice to add some buzzwords ;-)

Kristian

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documenta...tricks/show_which_templates_are_used
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/techn...te_operators/miscellaneous/attribute

Wednesday 22 June 2005 3:02:12 pm

It will replace the contentstructure menu in the left site of the administration interface. If you get a "Turn on Dynamic Menu" on the bottom of the content structure, it is working.

Kristian

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documenta...tricks/show_which_templates_are_used
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/techn...te_operators/miscellaneous/attribute

Thursday 23 June 2005 6:39:08 am

Kristian,

Care to post a few screen shots of the menu in action?

Respectfully,
//kracker

<i>Monk : Season 2</i>

Member since: 2001.07.13 || http://ezpedia.se7enx.com/

Monday 27 June 2005 3:50:30 am

Kracker. Here is a screenshot ;-)

 Content structure

      -   asdf
      +   Nyheter
      -   Innenriks

Status: loading
Turn off Dynamic Menu

Update: I added a more graphical screenshot :)

Kristian

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documenta...tricks/show_which_templates_are_used
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/techn...te_operators/miscellaneous/attribute

Monday 27 June 2005 4:11:39 am

housing this at pubsvn.ez.no sounds like a really great idea :!

I only ask for a screen shot because I had problems installing / testing it out (didn't show up :)

While I've installed several extensions before I could not get the menu to show up in the admin :|

I'm sure I was doing something wrong, not the code, I just did not take the time to figure out what...yet!

Updated: I gave it another shot this morning and now realize I just didn't turn it on before :)

Now I see what it looks like, neat.

I guess the readme.txt might be more helpful if it included a brief sentence or two educating new users trying it for the first time on just what they should be looking for?

I just wanted to see what it looked like, thought others might as well. I think having a screenshot helps promote extensions, ehh.

//kracker

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Member since: 2001.07.13 || http://ezpedia.se7enx.com/

Thursday 21 July 2005 2:13:58 am

This took a while, but now I have uploaded the extension to pubsvn.

It is available here:
http://pubsvn.ez.no/community/trunk/extension/dynamicmenu/

Feel free to hack on it...

I know the menu does not work correctly if you go to media or users. That is a quick fix which i will apply when i get the time..

Kristian

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documenta...tricks/show_which_templates_are_used
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/techn...te_operators/miscellaneous/attribute

Saturday 23 July 2005 2:23:03 pm

I just added the external link to the pubsvn server :)

Yes. If/When i update i will include a changelog.

Kristian

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documenta...tricks/show_which_templates_are_used
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/techn...te_operators/miscellaneous/attribute

Sunday 18 September 2005 5:21:51 am

Woho! Adding icons and the popupmenu wasnt as hard as i thougth.. I have committed it to the svn-version :-)

Now all we need is storing which levels where expanded, and automagically open the levels to the current node we are viewing..

Kristian

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documenta...tricks/show_which_templates_are_used
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/techn...te_operators/miscellaneous/attribute

Monday 19 September 2005 2:16:11 am

Well... it isnt tested very well, and just some rambling from me.. so i guess mr productmanager won't let this into the distribution without some competent people making it ;-)

But this extension will work in 3.8 too ;-)

Kristian

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documenta...tricks/show_which_templates_are_used
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/techn...te_operators/miscellaneous/attribute

Wednesday 05 October 2005 12:50:42 am

Very nice work Kristian... I was actually thinking yesterday evening about something similar, but you were here first ;)

I always get a timeout (local server) on containers with too many items, do you have any idea of how this could be handled ?

Otherwise, I really hope we can integrate more and more AJAX into the eZ Admin Interface in the future... I don't know if you have seen Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com), but that kind of interface really gives you something to think about in my opinion ;)