Hello,

Thanks for this module, it solves the problem of individual publications.

It also solves part of the other problem: the huge parent selectionlist. Some individual authors are still very prolific and the result can be a huge scrolllist. Is it possible to have two or more boxes? Instead of having each bookpage (being books, chapters, and pages) in one parent selectionbox, the first box allows to select the book. The second is then updated with the chapters in that book, selecting a chapter will then update the third with the paragraphs in those chapters.

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dwees commented

Yeah I can see your point. You'd like to have a select list for each level of the book, so that authors can limit the length of their select.

The problem with this is that any particular page can only have one parent. An author might get confused as how to use multiple select fields. What happens if they pick a node in select A and a node in the subselect B and Node A is not the parent of Node B. Should we make Node A or Node B the parent of the current page?

Also, we might end up with some foolish author who puts all of his book pages as children of the previous page, so he/she ends up with an enormous number of selects. That could be weird.

I'll keep thinking about the solution to this, because it would be nice to simplify the process of choosing the parent, and reduce the number of pages where the author can select the parent.

I just had another idea. What if we create a collapsible list of all of the book pages, and the author can expand/collapse the list as required, and then choose the location this way? So all of the top level parents might be collapsed so they don't show their children. Then the author clicks on a parent to open it and choose a child? Or will this be too unwieldy as well?

Dave

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TosaInu commented

Hello dwees,

I guess I understand.

A collapse list will be great. Perhaps allow it to be an optional expand window/box instead of a drop down list to make it more 'sticky'? Anything that avoids scrolling huge lists and selection mistakes is great.

Would it be possible to make it a more intuitive 'insert this page after' to replace the 'weight' box?

dwees’s picture

dwees commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Unfortunately this UI improvement is out of my range as a programmer. Sorry.