Outline Designer

If you use the Drupal Book module then you should probably download this module. Try out the 1.3 demo here.

The Outline Designer is a user experience module that makes book management more intuitive. Essentially it overlays on the admin book outline page so that you can use AJAX to build and edit site outlines much faster then Drupal traditionally allows. This project has been created as part of the ELMS initiative at Pennsylvania State University.

Here is a comprehensive list of the features this module provides:

• Context menu with buttons Add child content, Edit and View Shortcuts, Rename, Duplicate branches of content, Delete branches of content, change node type
• Rename content inline
• Reorder content via drag/drop with AJAX updating
• icons on settings page per content type
• Collapse branches for easier viewing as well as set default state of collapse on load
• Integration with Organic Groups via helper module (1.2+)
• Set theme / skin of content menu (1.2+)
• Collapse / Expand All branches (1.2+)
• context menu permissions per role (1.3+)
• iterative duplication with additional token (1.3+)
• permission structure that will allow normal users to outline parts of books (1.3+)
• Plays nicely with Book Manager module (1.3+)

Version 1.3
Outline Designer Tutorial Part 1 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn5sVYi3NmE
Outline Designer Tutorial Part 2 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0EuE5BMSkU
Duplication Feature -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehj4Ep0ILU0
Book Manager Integration -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idWd61kzhyI (Patch to accomplish it http://drupal.org/node/1063686)

Version 1.2 (Archival)
Walkthrough Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrWfZey8dpM
Walkthrough Part 2 (Organic Groups) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbuzig0vyC8
Speed test -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNrjgjhKQpI

Roadmap: I'd love to see this work with taxonomy, books, menus and draggableviews but many of these are outside of my own scope for usage of the module. As such, I'll definitely help with patches towards adding those types of functionality but it may be awhile til I work them in myself. I still need to audit D7 before getting into a detailed feature-set but Drupal 7 is planned for outline designer. I am very open to suggestions / improvements so please make them as many have already been rolled into versions 1.2 and 1.3.

Some nice to have functionality down the road includes:

• duplicate from one branch to another
• support for the Flat Book module
• work with menus
• work with taxonomy lists
• work with draggable views

The 5 branch is no longer maintained but still there if you want to check it out in the project releases.

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