diogo Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I'm feeling the need to have the template forms more organized to make them more readable for editors. The problem is that, it quite difficult to group pieces of information together inside the same form. I was thinking of two possible solutions for this. One would be simply dividing the form in columns, so you could for instance, on a restaurant menu, put the name of the plates on one column, and their prices on the other. The other would be dividing the fields into groups inside each page. I know we could make a page for each group instead, but in some situations I think it just makes it more complicated for the client. Those groups could be there only visually for the form, or they could even be called from the API, why not? $page->group1 could return an array of the fields inside that group. Just a very rough idea, and a very rough draft on the attachment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soma Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Do you know there's tabs fields you can use to create custom tabs and put fields there. I'm using this quite a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogo Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 I didn't! Thanks Soma, these are very useful and I had never look at them. Ryan, couldn't they be used on the default site so people would be immediately aware of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Ryan, couldn't they be used on the default site so people would be immediately aware of them? I want to keep the default site profile really, really simple. But also want to get some more site profiles together that the user can select from, and one of these other profiles should definitely demonstrate this feature. One of these days I also want to figure out how to make the fieldsets/tabs indent on that asmSelect list in the template editor, as I think it looks a bit technical now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apeisa Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 One of these days I also want to figure out how to make the fieldsets/tabs indent on that asmSelect list in the template editor, as I think it looks a bit technical now. I actually use this kind of spelling on fold and tab fields: DETAILS_FOLD and IMAGES_TAB. It helps to separate things, but indent would be nice. Although that is more or less of technical side of PW anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soma Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Hehe funny. I'm using "_images_tab" for tabs. The other day I was trying to get them more visible by renaming them to something like "____________images_tab" - but it wouldn't let me and rename it to _images_TAB, seems like only one "_" is allowed. I was a little bit sad, but found it's ok for now, and was sure it will come up somewhere. Good Idea with the indent Ryan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico Knoll Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 AAHHH! I didn't knew how easy it is to create tabs!!! Thanks to you! I now know it an love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formmailer Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 AAHHH! I didn't knew how easy it is to create tabs!!! Thanks to you! I now know it an love it Same here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apeisa Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 It seems definitely place where UI needs some refreshment. Pretty poor percentage of heavy users did know about this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diogo Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 Glad I could help ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 It seems definitely place where UI needs some refreshment. Pretty poor percentage of heavy users did know about this Indeed - I just assumed everyone knew already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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