[TYPO3-commerce] improve usability of category/product-tree

[Ingo Schmitt]

Hi Andreas,


> Hi all,
> 
> I have a some problems to insert and order categories and products in 
> the tree. I'am not sure if I'am the only one or if there is a motivation 
> to think about this and spend some time and money to improve the usability.
> 
> My ideas:
> - Click on name opens the editpage.
> - Click on icon opens menu.

Like in the normal list module.
> - Drag+Drop as in page-tree to sort and copy categories/products.
> 
This is hard by Javascript, and alos hard by Copieng Products Categores. 
  Remember if you do copy a catgeory, you copy alle sub categories and 
products and articles recursivly. This ist very hard to implement and 
also you will have more than one article with the same article number. 
How could you be clear which article has the right article number. Sou 
you have to add a prefix or a suffix when copyng. Also you have to take 
care about the Attributes references.

So I like to split it into two jobs:
Build a System that allows to copy commerce elements, including the 
handling of recursive copies and regeneration of article numbers.
And the drag and drop stuff.

The JS stuff could be 2-3 days, the copy stuff will be more than 5 days. 
So, quite a huge work.

ingo



> See also:
> http://bugs.typo3-commerce.org/view.php?id=278
> 
> I have tried to understand how it works with the graytree, but no chance 
> ;( I'am willing to sponsor the development if others join me. In my eyes 
> this is the hardest problem in usability. The other is the handling of 
> attributes/articles...
> 


> Curious about what you think
> Andreas


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