Pimping the administration interface

Author Message

Knut Urdalen

Friday 09 November 2007 4:39:26 am

I want to do some small customization to the standard administration interface.

<b>Better visibility when a node are hidden</b>
When I look at the child nodes of a node I want to gray out nodes that are hidden (like what's being done in the content tree menu) so it's clearer to the editor what's the publishing status on all children nodes listed. The is needed because not all nodes are listed in the content tree menu. I know you can see the visibility flag if you click on "detailed", but it's better if it's visual.

<b>More details when listing the childrens</b>
I want to add some of my custom attributes from my custom content classes to the table which shows children nodes. Example: If I have a news folder it would be nice to also see the publish date in that table (just for the news-folder). When I choose "detailed" I get the last modified date, but what if I want to show an attribute of choice?

<b>Actual preview</b>
The front-end toolbar is nice, but when looking at a node in the administration interface is it possible to change the preview content with the actual page layout from the front-end?

<b>Preview by default in media library</b>
I want to set the view mode of children lists to "thumbnail" by default in the media library and keep "list" by default for everything inside the content structure.

Any solutions or suggestions?

Matthew Carroll

Thursday 15 November 2007 5:41:43 pm

You can customise the admin interface templates, just like the public site. Create your own design, with the normal admin design as a fallback.

Actual preview:

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/user_manual/3_10/the_administration_interface/the_object_edit_interface/preview

For this to work your public site needs to be specified in the AvailableSiteAccessList[] array in the site.ini.append.php of your admin site.

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_10/reference/configuration_files/site_ini/siteaccesssettings/availablesiteaccesslist

http://carroll.org.uk

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