view modes for attribute_edit_gui and attribute_view_gui

Friday 29 September 2006 2:22:30 pm

Hi there

Is it possible to have different views for the attribute_edit_gui?
Example: I have an ezselection attribute. There a several ways to edit such an attribute, one could use an selectbox, some radiobuttons or some checkboxes (if multiselect). I want to tell the attribute_edit_gui function what template to use.
The same applies to the attribute_view_gui.

At the moment I use a parameter for this but I would like this to work like the different view modes possible for the node_view_gui. Then I could have different templates for each required attribute view and not have all of them in one big switch.

Claudia

Saturday 30 September 2006 2:24:24 am

Hi Kristian

Yes I know that I can create overrides. The problem is that these overrides would be valid for the entire siteaccess but I would like to be able to choose which view I want depending on the template the attribute_edit_gui function is used in.

Currently I use your second idea by selecting which view to use basing on some variable I pass to the edit template. This works alright so it is truly not necessary to have the functionality I asked for. It just would be nice to have the same functionality for all xx_yy_gui functions and it is possible to choose different view modes for displaying nodes or objects after all.

So this is really just a suggestion, definitely not something necessary.

Greetings from Luxembourg

Claudia