[TYPO3-dev] TYPO3 4.2 Alpha3: Pagetree filter

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote:
> I was glad to see the filter box looks so nice now, but I have some doubts about
> the functionality. When the page tree is collapsed it does not work, also not
> for parts of the collapsed tree. It sounds most logical to me that parts expand
> when entered in the filter box. This ofcourse poses a problem when you just
> enter one character. Patrick suggests to only activate the ajax search when
> entered at least three characters. There should at least be the possibility to
> expand / collapse the pagetree as featured in pagetreetools.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I still regret that we decided not to use ExtJS in the core. It has all these things built-in. Now we reinvent the whell with all these searches, page tree dynamic loads, ajax forms, etc. We could just use ExtJS for it.

Check, for example, trees:
http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/tree/two-trees.html
http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/tree/reorder.html

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