template overrides browsing - better sollution?

Wednesday 22 June 2005 7:36:21 am

I don't know if anyone else noticed but browsing templates for overrides in the admin interface is a little bit annoying. I have 42 pages of templates and have to search through them to find the template I need. Couldn't this be solved more practically?

My suggestions is to organize the template browsing in tree hierarchy, like a file system. First to show the highiest directories, then the next level and so on to the files.

For example, the highiest level would look like this:

visual
design
workflow
.
.
.
content
class

then by clicking the "content" directory the next level is shown:

datatype
collectedinfomail
collectedinfo

and so on.

This seems to me to be a better sollution for browsing the templates. Did anyone already suggested something like this and are there any plans to do it?

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Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it!

Hubert Farnsworth

Thursday 23 June 2005 2:09:57 pm

But as far as I know this propsed idea could only decrease the load from the admin interface.

I know that vim-ing the override file is much faster, but I also know that there are a lot of designers (and programmers too) that preffer creating overrides from the admin interface. And you cannot persuade all of them to use vim. Also for manually changing the override file you have to know all the template names and there are a lot of them...

So I would really like to know if someone already suggested this idea, and are there any plans to do it?

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Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it!

Hubert Farnsworth