OK, I'm just throwing this out there, so feel free to put me in my place!

I was just wondering if there would be much work involved in adding a handler for book module outlines?

Although the book module has its own drag and drop hierarchy reordering page, I find it gets quite unwieldy to use on large books (no expand/collapse being the main reason). Draggableviews could act as an excellent replacement book outliner with expand/collapse, while also being able to reorder a book at an arbitrary parent using views arguments. It would also allow arbitrary content to be added to the outline that cannot be added using the book module outline.

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looplog commented

If anybody is able to consult or assist in the creation of a book handler please let me know. This is quite a big requirement for me right now. I'm able to provide some funds, depending on how much is actually involved.

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sevi commented

I just added the Book handler to the DraggableViews project.
The module "DraggableViews Book handler" is a sub-module of the DraggableViews module and must be activated seperately. It provides a default view that appears on each book node page (tab: "rearrange").

Try and report! :)

Greetings,
sevi

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looplog commented

Well color me impressed! Thanks a bundle. I'll check it out and give some feedback directly.

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criz
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Awesome! This could be very useful...

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sevi commented

I committed big chances concerning the book handler to cvs.

Now all book-pages can be used as the root of the tree in the view.
The intelligent book handler lets the root node in the view think that it is the book-root node (without changing values in the database). So all not-shown hierarchy levels above will not have to be changed if the root node in the view changes.

..just to be mentioned for DraggableBooks developers: Me :)

Greetings,
sevi

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looplog commented

I tried out the original commit last night and it works as advertised. This is really a huge leap in usability for books. For the site I was working on I ended up using the native handler, but I'll be using this in the future. I was just wondering if you coded that in response to my asking, in which case I feel kind of rough as I'm not at present able to justify funds as I was in July. Nonetheless, I am extremely thankful. If that means anything!

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sevi commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

I was just wondering if you coded that in response to my asking

You just gave me a hint of what can be useful. Well, and i found it very, very useful :)
First I thought it's too complicated to work with the menu system, but then I did it though.

I'll close this issue now. Documentation for this Book handler will follow.

Greetings,
sevi