I think we can make the books admin page at admin/content/book better by overriding it with a view. This is similar to the node view for filters etc.. as this makes sense. The only difference (which I like) is to have a combined filter field for the node title/nid. So then we can search on both - which is pretty handy. We could also consider doing this on the node content view too?

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Started a new 7.x-book branch and committed this patch.

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I have committed a few other tweaks to this branch today. Hopefully I can merge this into the 7.x-1.x branch before a release.

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This looks like a good idea to me -- I don't really have time to test this myself though; any chance for a screenie? :)

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Sure! :) Here you go.

I am using a combined field atm, to search on node title or nid. I think this is a good idea, and really helpful. What do you think? Any other criticism obviously welcome.

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Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

Coolio, thanks! :)

Yeah, let's do this. I thought you were aiming for the book outline/re-order page view (which apparently shares the missing tabledrag support problem of the taxonomy term view), but apparently this is just about the simple book overview page. :)

On the node title/nid filter change, I can't see why changing that would be a problem? Does it still support partial node title searches through autocomplete? If you cannot see any issues either, then we can certainly do that.

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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

The combined filter works the same as the original title filter at the moment. So the partial titles (contains) works fine. There is no autocomplete though? The node view doesn't do this either though :)

Merged in book branch and pushed to 7.x-1.x

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erm, yeah, history fools me. ;) There once was an autocomplete for the title filter, but that turned out to make not much sense. :)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.