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)

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 contrubute their share to improve this prototype. I guess that some enhancements at SimpleForms would allow to have a much better lay out in the template code. Currently the code is very sensitive to blanks and linebreaks. This is one of the reasoins it looks not 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)