[TYPO3-hci] Element relation & integration Overview

[Andreas Balzer]

Hi!

Jens Hoffmann schrieb:
> Did you ever saw this Video?
Sure. I have seen most of the videos there and on channel 10.

> http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=106356
> I mean the the Interface presented in the Middle of the Video.
It's a nice idea by Microsoft for an operating system based on a file 
system and a "database" behind. However I don't see any usage of their 
system for a CMS like TYPO3.

Firstly, it's not the same to have a system scanning your local computer 
(as an app) and presenting the results dynamicly in an exe application 
This dynamic timeline requires a fast CPU and a very fast connection to 
the screen of the user so that he can access those files. They can do 
it, because the user is actually at the same place where all the magic 
happens. T3 doesn't have the possibility to operate on the clients 
computer, it's about a web application. (Even if this is possible in the 
future, the connection speed would be to slow)

Secondly, in T3 it's not about having a timeline about something, 
because you don't want to organize your family live with T3. So it's not 
about "I was in a zoo last month and want to find additional 
information". This point is supported by the fact that most editors in 
T3 don't have the access rights to all of those information. As a family 
computer in their concept MS doesn't have the problem.

Their concept is redone very well in DAM I think. But the system I 
propose tries to link all the different elements in T3 by criterias like 
user usage, usage in other files, etc, based on allready done work like 
documents etc.

I don't think that MS's concept would be a good decission for T3. But 
what do you think about ;)

Andreas

P.S.: Another feature like this was introduced especially for T3 (afaik 
by me) as a unified search (acting like Spotlight), coded by Kasper. If 
it's about finding something before you want to create something, I 
think this is the way to go..

> 
> Andreas Balzer wrote:
>> Hi!
>> As T3 5.0 seems to be using some kind of content repository, I think 
>> we might no longer be limited to the traditional thinking of websites 
>> like pages. As it is possible to integrate different content elements 
>> into other content elements (that's what I think when hearing "content 
>> repository") I think, T3 should reflect this organisation.
>>
>> Therefore I have thought about an "Element Relation & Integration 
>> Overview" (short "Element Overview") submodul, that shows all the 
>> related information about a content element, like involved BE and FE 
>> users, contents used by the content element (included images and other 
>> texts), external links within the included content elements or the 
>> whole element, etc.
>>
>> It would be possible to talk about for ages, but I preffer screenies. 
>> Therefore I have copied a general BE layout proposal by Jens Hoffmann 
>> and manipulated some parts of his hci pdf. You can find the image at 
>> http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/8442/elementoverviewsn8.jpg
>>
>>
>> What do you think about?
>>
>> Andreas