Port Formfilter 1.x to Drupal 6.x

Thanks for your post.

Some months back I committed an initial D6 update to HEAD. Any further work should be based on HEAD. In doing so I removed the UI from formfilter. I've never liked the implementation of the UI, but more than this the API functions needed to be available without it.

I'd like to find the time to write a proper UI, but so far haven't. So you could consider pulling the UI component out into a formfilter_ui module for D6 and fixing up any issues in the HEAD version.

any chance this could be moved to the project home page now as a dev release for d6? nobody is going to find it here for testing!

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nedjo
As long as you delay releasing of the UI for D6 version of your module - there's no reason to complain about people finding their own ways of coping with the problem.
Drupal is excellent CMS, but it's interface is too complicated for the end user/admin - so this module is a big help to resolve those issues.

By the time you implement UI for FormFilter there might be Drupal 7 out - so I think this is great if someone found some time and effort in doing this port.

Why you just didn't do the same? This could be a good practice to publish "looking for co-maintainer" ad in the module description page so that people don't just visit module's page over and over again to see that it hasn't been released yet and yet again.

Thank you, dbabbage.

@ivan.g

You seem to have misread my comment, which certainly was not a complaint. As I explained, the patch needed to be on the HEAD version (as is standard) and required further work, which could have been done by anyone with minimal Drupal coding skills. I have now done that work.

as a sign of encouragement: this module is fantastic - it's one of the most important steps for better usability in drupal ... it should go into core ...

thanks a lot again

greetings momper

hello

is somebody out there, with the skills to do the ui-stuff?
should we search for a co-maintainer?
or a bounty?

greetings momper

is there some progress?

@dbabbage is your version still working fine? maybe you should start a fork of this module?

i asked:
is somebody out there, with the skills to do the ui-stuff?
should we search for a co-maintainer?
or a bounty?

no reaction - what could we do?

greetings momper

Hm yes, I already thought about helping out here, but actually, i wonder how the ui-module is intended to work, anyway. It has been mentioned that it's a new approach to the formfilter control (though I could live with the old one, too), but no more info were given.

I mean, I have the old one (D5) running on several D6 instances, 'cause there is some patch available for it. Nonetheless, a definite release version for D6 would be really nice, so I'd like to see progress, too ;)

I don't understand what the issue is here.

I wrote a D6 version, including a Formfilter UI module, which is available in the dev release.

Have people tried it? Are there any issues with it? If so, what are they?

Is the issue that I haven't posted a D6 stable release? I'd be happy to do so after a review or two in this issue noting that things work. So far the comments make it seem like there is no D6 Formfilter UI. Formfilter is like dozens of other modules I've written--I've never used it, I don't have a lot of time for testing, so I rely on users reports to judge when it's stable.

As for co-maintainers, the more the better--please contact me and I'd be happy to add you. Ditto for a new maintainer--I'm always happy to pass my modules on to qualified new maintainers and do so regularly.

humm, I apologize. This issue is marked as active. Since there is a release (as I see on the projects page) and you just emphasized that it's done, I wonder why it's not marked as fixed (I mean, it IS ported). Everything else should get its own ticket, right? :)

@nedjo you wrote in the 6.x dev description

"This is a pure API version of formfilter. That is, it has no UI (and so is useless for most users, unless it's required by another module). I'm working on a form altering UI module."

so why i should try it as an non developer ...

... but now i will try :)

Thanks, forgot to update the release notes, done now.

so far no problems on one installation - continue testing ...