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

[Andreas Stauder]

Hi Ingo,

Ingo Schmitt wrote:
> 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.

Articlenumber is the uid or ordernumber/eancode? I think there are 2 
usecases:

1) You want that the same products/articles appear in different 
categories -> just make a link and do not copy them, so no problem?

2) Really copy them: Ok here we have your problems. But is this the 
important usecase? Isn't it a general problem with inserting 
attributes/products/articles? What do you think about a API which can be 
used also by import extensions?

To do the JS stuff would be cool. Should I insert a feature request to 
collect sponsoring? A request was already made in 
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=5008
(Additional Information).

Andreas

> 
> 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
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen