Of all the Drupal Contrib. Modules, I use Storm the most ... using it regularly to manage all aspects of projects.

I've looked a bit through the issues cue to try and find if its been addresses previously, but can't see it...

I've gotten into the habit of posting everything to the front page, and then working from there to go to the Storm Dashboard, sort screens, custom views etc, For me this can save a few clicks...

However, when I bring up the Front Page, and view the default node information for a Project, Task, Ticket, Timetrack, Note, etc, there is nothing that tells me that it IS a PROJECT node, TASK node etc, ... it tells be lots of information about what it is not, which is helpful to have when I want to add timetrackings to a ticket...etc. I can figure out what it is by viewing the node display and deducing what it is, but I get lazy and just want it to tell me, with-out me having to figure it out...

It seems to me if a Project Node was to tell me that it was a "Project" node it would help out a lot when looking at front page listings of all nodes relative to a certain site... this could be in text form or icon. As a work around I find myself typing in "project" in the node title for a project just so it stands out on the front page, which doesn't make sense for a lot of other reasons of course...

(note: I tag each node with a specific (Site specific) taxonomy term when I create the various nodes. This then lets me bring up all Storm Nodes that have been tagged from that site...when I do this is when I run into the difficulty of having to figure out what kind nodes they are ...)

In terms of drupal abiltiy (as per the Drupal Learning Curve at http://buytaert.net/drupal-learning-curve) , hopefully, I crossed the ""I suck" threshhold" several months ago , and look forward to knowing this stuff good enough where I can just offer up a patch for a minor item like this, but at this point I'm working on step to "Drastically customize front page"... At my present rate I'll reach "Contributing documentation and support" around June of this year...

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JGonzalez’s picture

JGonzalez commented

I had never tried posting to front page to see what it looks like until now. It seems that it does tell you the type of node in the breadcrumbs if you have that enabled, for example mine says Storm >> Project at the top, and below it has the item.

While this would probably be a nice little feature, I don't think its there due to the fact that in *most user cases, they either go to Projects to view projects, tasks to view tasks, etc, so they know where they are, or use views to sort this out (below)

I think the best way to do this would be with views, and creating a views page or block, so there it can even sort it by node type, priorities and most importantly, status.

Magnity’s picture

Magnity commented
Category: feature » support
Status: Active » Fixed

As per #1.

Views is the best way to go.

An alternative would be to use a custom themeing for that bit - the type of node can be accessed via node->type for each node listed, but that's a lot more work, and probably less functional than using views.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.