[TYPO3-hci] Make Sysfolder appears as Web Module

[Malte Jansen]

Hi Patrick,

It's pretty easy to use sys_action for your idea.
You can set the Taskcenter as starting page after login.
So the editor gets an overview over its tasks and it's not limited to 
sys-folders.

By the way the editors are pretty happy about the bundle of tasks. You 
just have to define the order and pretty good labels.


Cheers,
Malte



Patrick Gaumond schrieb:
> Hello dear HCI people,
> 
> Before making this suggestion in the bugtracker for 4.3, I wanted to get 
> some input from you. Here's the idea:
> 
> Feature: Make Sysfolder appears as Web Module
> 
> Scenario: Simplification for tt_news editors.
> For someone new to TYPO3, having to select a sysfolder in "list mode" is 
> a bit strange at first. Why isn't a module, why is it mixed with pages ? 
> It's not intuitive to first select "List" then navigate the pagetree to 
> find where the news records are "hidden".
> 
> Solution: Make Sysfolder appears as Web Module
> 
> By adding 2 checkboxes and 3 radiobox :
> 
>  C1. Make Sysfolder appears as Web Module
>       C2. Unhide sysfolder for non-admin
>       R. Show subfolders has:
>            R1: Tabs (default)
>            R2: Sub-modules
>            R3: Folder (Use pagetree, classic mode)
> 
> When choosing to check "C1", the sysfolder disappear from the pagetree 
> for anyone not being an admin of the installation. This could be 
> reverted by checking "C2" or some UserTS (like for DAM).
> 
> The idea of the feature is to hide the sysfolder and change its virtual 
> position as a Web Module in the left panel.
> 
> Here's what happen for people wants to edit news:
>   1. Click on the News module on the left
>      (name from the sysfolder or navigation title or whatever)
>   2. Pagetree is hidden/removed
>      (records in sysfolder are not part of the tree)
>   3. Switch to "List view"
>   4. Tabs for each subfolders appears in the right pane.
>      (checking "Use pagetree instead of tabs" just remove steps 2 and 4)
> 
> With all this, people won't need the pagetree to find records sometimes 
> hidden under many levels of sysfolders. The "real" full pagetree is 
> still there for Admins.
> 
> Does all of this make sense to you? Is it worth the effort to code this 
> feature to help Editors in their job?
> 
> I mentioned tt_news but almost all extensions that needs records could 
> use this feature and I can see extensions with multiple tables getting 
> easier to use by making the visible link table=tab instead of listview 
> with multiple tables on the same sysfolder.
> 
> Sorry for being long.
> 
> 
> Patrick "sysfolder" Gaumond
>