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OE rel. object paperclip-img not informative

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Martin Lekvall

Thursday 13 October 2005 5:31:28 am

To start out, creds go out to crew and community for a nice product.

<b>Problem:</b>
This issue regards related objects, apart from images, inserted into the Online Editor.

When inserting related files/objects into the OE it is represented by the paperclip-image. That image doesent reveal any information about which file or object it represents.

This is a problem for our approximately 100 editors when they are about to delete/re-sort/insert new or move e.t.c. one or more files among several files in one page as they are not distinguished from each other.

Example:
http://www.medfak.lu.se/martin/oe/oe_clips.gif

Of course you can:
- right-click the clip-icon > choose properties > close the pop-up and recall which one you right-clicked.
- Or, click View-button > count from top which file(s) are interesting > click Edit-button > count clips-icons down from top in OE.
Ether way it gets timeconsuming and non-obvious for our sometimes less web-aware users when working with a lot of files.

<b>Suggestion:</b>
A huge usabillity improvement would be to include identification (name) of the related file/object directly in the OE itself.

Some (corny) examples:
http://www.medfak.lu.se/martin/oe/oe_fileinfo.gif

What is your thaughts, community and crew?

-
Martin

EzP 3.5.0, OE 2.0
RH-EL3 2.4, mySql 4.1.7, php 4.3.9, apache 1.3.33

Kirill Subbotin

Monday 07 November 2005 3:10:27 am

Yes, I agree. Object's name should be displayed in the status line. We will try to implement this suggestion in OE 4.0 release.

Martin Lekvall

Monday 07 November 2005 3:52:39 am

Thats good news Kirill!

We are happy to hear this will be considered.

> "implement this suggestion in OE 4.0 release."

Does that imply an OE 3.0 in between or maybe you were referring to an OE-version <b>for</b> eZ publish 4.0?

Thanks
/martin

EzP 3.5.0, OE 2.0
RH-EL3 2.4, mySql 4.1.7, php 4.3.9, apache 1.3.33

Kirill Subbotin

Monday 07 November 2005 5:20:49 am

I'm talking about OE 4.0 release. (not ez publish)

lewis webb

Tuesday 13 November 2007 12:52:13 pm

is the feature available yet (which provides a user-friendly view of inserted objects into the OE editor).
1. If so, how is that view managed?
2. Also, can you give an example or a link of how you can retrieve/access an inserted object's attributes/properties?
3. Better yet, how do you iterate through a set of Related objects that were inserted into a OE?

Thanks.