[TYPO3-hci] devilish details - improvement suggestions

[David Toshack]

It would also be great to have this collapsible option per table in the
listview, rather than only being able to view one table or all at once.

Cheers,
David

Johannes Reichardt wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> sounds good. please add it to the wiki:
> http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Devilish_Details
> 
> Maybe your idea could even be improved - in some sort of "customize BE
> mode" an admin could show/hide (collapse/uncollapse) all items that
> should be shown to the be user - the corresponding TS config would be
> inserted as well. That would be very intuitive and simple to setup the
> visual feeling of the BE for an enduser.
> 
> - Johannes
>> Johannes Reichardt wrote:
>>  
>>> TEMPLATE
>>> move setup field above constants - i guess 95% of the people use this
>>> field more often.
>>>     
>>
>> I don't think moving it is such a good idea (others have explained why).
>> However, to solve your problem, I have an alternative suggestion (other
>> than using the template module, which has also been suggested by others):
>>
>> ==A collapsing feature would be excellent in the backend.==
>> Put a plus/minus (depending on whether or not a field is 'collapsed') in
>> the header of the fields (see mock up screen shot at end of email)
>> Then people can hide the fields that get in their way.
>>
>> Just putting the icon/link/whatever in the header to
>> collapse/un-collapse the field is a start. But to go even further, it
>> needs to be configurable by TSconfig (per user/group AND per page)
>>
>> so two steps:
>> 1) Icon that collapses/un-collapses in field header
>> 2) Add TSconfig to control it
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Jacob Floyd
>>
>> My screenshot mockup (collapseMockUp.jpg):
>> note the plus and minus on the right side of the field header. I copied
>> the plus/minus from the module list.
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