One thing that annoyed my users about Drupal was always this: when you submit work, it's always laid out in a quick little list. I was wondering if it would be possible to make a field wherein the admin could lay out both the page for submitting a form and the page for viewing the finished content. That way, admins could make nodes really stand out to the users.

*Note: this could probably be enhanced a bit by using the Dashboard module to at least split up the fields into columns.

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rory--’s picture

rory-- commented

Other feature request: could you make a block that shows the content of a particular field of CCK? It would really make for some cool formatting options.

rory--’s picture

rory-- commented

Wait- does this do what I'm asking?

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rory-- commented

Sorry for bumping this, but... it's annoying when such a well-used and well-visited module doesn't get ANY responses to a feature idea.

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tinycg commented

RonoxQ, I believe the lack of response is mostly due to the fact that CCK is meant to make it easy to create the info, and they've left the themeing of the info(node) to the theme. You can use the node hooks to theme any piece within the node either by creating another tpl.php file.. or by using Jeff's Contemplate.module which he created out of a conversation about the same issues, its still in its infancy though.

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karens commented

You also might check out the cck handbook pages at http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/cck for other themeing suggestions.

rory--’s picture

rory-- commented

TinyCG- If you clicked the link that I put up, I asked if that would handle what I was trying to do. However, I'm still interested: would it be possible to export a field as a block?

And Karen- I don't know anything whatsoever regarding php. >_< It's a bit of a challenge sometimes...

Thanks for replying so promptly after I posted, though!

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

themeing is not the goal of CCK. CCK is about data definition and storage.