[geeklog-devel] GL Config Manager Editor UI

[Blaine Lang]

As noted in my last post, perfecting the config editor UI was not the 
focus of our SOC project but having a very workable UI for the new 
online config manager was and Aaron has done a great job with this part 
of the project as well.

Now ...
Even with the 8 main tabs which have greatly simplified the config.php, 
it is still a bit bewildering for new users to sort out all the config 
settings as some tabbed sections still have over 40 settings in 8 
sub-sections (fieldsets). The subsection headings certainly help isolate 
what you need to change but new users may find seeing that many items on 
a page confusing. Experienced admin's can easily filter out the noise 
and zero in on what they are looking for.

I've recently been working on a few complex projects with screens that 
had 100's of fields and attached are 2 screenshots to show a suggested 
approach to breaking a page up into smaller viewable sections. In the 
end, it is all one form but using show/hide divs. I have JS code and 
examples that can be used.

Optionally, we have been working with the EXT library for it's great 
grid control and there is a very nice example of what can be done with a 
web UI and the EXT library here:
    http://aariadne.com/accordion-preview/  - sorry Dirk, that won't 
work in Lynx :)


Blaine



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