managing pages without using the site tree

[fenton]

Hi there,

I know this has been discussed before, I just got some further questions

let's say I have a news section where my news items get stored in year/month/day-folders automatically using 'processdatearchiver' (http://processwire.com/talk/topic/2468-module-processdatearchiver/)

is there another module besides Somas 'Datatable' (http://processwire.com/talk/topic/704-datatable/) to add, edit, delete posts in a chronological listing? thought I saw another post awhile ago, but am not sure ...

cheers, j

[kongondo]

There's no other module (ATM) but I was fooling around with this http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3474-admin-custom-pages-module/?p=34425. It's not a module but an implementation of CRUD using jTable and the module Admin Custom Pages. I don't have the capability (yet) of transforming that into a module .

[fenton]

hey kongondo,

thanks, that looks good!

maybe I'm overthinking scenarios e.g. that end users might get confused between creating pages in the tree, then browsing/editing them with Somas module (which works great btw.)

cheers, j

[kongondo]

Yes. Tree is best IMO. CRUD tables like these are more suitable for power users. PW can easily manage 1000s of pages in the Tree. You can also try to nest your pages as much as possible (categories) if that makes more sense and helps with pagination in the Admin. Additionally, using the admin search, you can easily find pages. It all depends on your needs though. BTW, you can have both the tree and the CRUD tables if you wanted. I think Matthew is working on a datatables implementation as well, btw.

Edited June 15, 2013 by kongondo

[fenton]

You can also try to nest your pages as much as possible (categories) if

that makes more sense and helps with pagination in the Admin

did you check this out? http://processwire.com/talk/topic/2468-module-processdatearchiver/ it's really nice, well done & handy

[kongondo]

Don't think I have, thx.