DPL talk:Catlist

Suggestions

Nice. Thank you. Some suggestions:

• Could use columns/table
• Need support for multi-select listboxes (Simple Forms limitation?)
• True/false select lists should be checkboxes
• linksto (+!) should automatically pull in all articles (or give an option to pull them in, only for various categories, etc)
• addeditdate and addpagetoucheddate should be a radio button pair to prevent this error: "%DPL-1.2.8-ERROR: You cannot add more than one type of date at a time!" Radio button pairs should be used for other either-or parameter combinations, if any.
• Make use of the "disable" HTML form option and Javascript/CSS in order to hide parameters that aren't necessary/usable relative to existing parameter selection.
• Make use of CSS and mouseover/hover effects to provide brief descriptions of parameters for easy reference. Also, since the parameter name (i.e. "notuses") is within the form, there's no need to expose that esoteric (and improper grammar/spelled) name when "does not use" is semantically correct.

-Eep² 14:03, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

Also needs a way to add multiple namespaces, categories, articles, templates, etc. -Eep² 17:04, 31 July 2007 (CEST)

Re: Suggestions

I agree with all of the above and in fact I had most points in mind already. But I personally will not be the one who takes care of these suggestions. It was my idea to develop an architecture where the GUI is not buried within php code so that others (who need not even know php) can contribute their share to improve this prototype. I guess that some enhancements at SimpleForms would allow to have a much better layout in the template code as well as in the GUI itself. Currently the code is very sensitive to blanks and linebreaks. This is one of the reasons it doesn´t look really nice. The last step I will undertake ist to draw the attention of the author of SimpleForms to the most prominent issues.

Gero 14:48, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

Modifications to Catlist

I think I had good reasons for my original layout of the GUI fields. You changed the layout in a way which leads to a small long list of input fields. The effect is that the user now has to scroll down to see the result. This is not very comfortable. I suggest that you take your modification back and store your version under a different name. Make a link in DPL:Catlist to both variants and let the users decide which they prefer.

Gero 14:57, 26 July 2007 (CEST)

Fair enough, but that's why, with a better design (checkboxes, simpler form titles, etc), the form will become much more condensed/compact. -Eep² 15:05, 26 July 2007 (CEST)