By wawaloo on

Hi everyone,

I am pretty new too Drupal, I have been working with Joomla!, Typo3 and CMSMS and have been quite happy about them, depending on the complexity of the project.

I am pretty impressed with Drupal, its ease of use, its modularity (and great modules like CCK, Views and Panels) and its consistency, and I want to start offering it to my client as a solution.

But (there is always a but!), I find that the content administration interface is not very user friendly for editors. It is a just a filtered list you have to click 3 times to get, and that can become pretty long very quickly. The fact that you have to create a content and assign it to a menu can look also complicated for the client.

There is a very nice BE in Typo3 and CMSMS where you see all your pages in a treeview and simply clicking on a page shows its content which you can edit. I wonder if there is an way to make the content editor interface more user friendly in Drupal, or maybe a strategy to organize content so that it is more logicaly presented.

Thanks in advance for your answer!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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betz commented

Hey wawaloo,

i always build control panels myself.
You can by creating a nice view and this http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations module.
This gives you the checkboxes and actions on your view.
This way, you can create any control panel, and the way you want it.

Hope this helps

Tom

wawaloo’s picture

wawaloo commented

Hi Tom and thanks for the reply.

So, if I understand you right, to give an editor a better view of the content, you suggest building a control panel using the Views module, run operations to the nodes of that view?

I am sorry, I don't know how your suggestion answers my question. I may need an example or some further explanation. I'm a newbie, that's certainly why ;-)

betz’s picture

betz commented

I would say, have a look at the project page http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations
There is much info there already to get you going.

The idea is that you build a view, and you select style 'bulk operations".
This makes a control panel from your view with all node actions you see on regular content administrate panel.
You can create extra exposed filters etc for making your CP very user friendly and how you want it.
Just check it out, it's great, and i'm sure you will like it.