Re: PLIP #188: Configurable content views

Martin Aspeli skrev:

> I'm not saying there isn't support, I'm saying that the only person who
> seems to know what this PLIP is trying to solve is you. Having discussions
> is all well and good, but an unclear PLIP is probably not the place to have
> it. I still don't understand what it is you're trying to change or improve.

Malthes PLIP is talking about a way to configure views without changing 
templates.

Site managers have different opinions as to how a listing should look in 
something like a smart folder.

Most of the time they just want to do simple stuff. Like hiding the 
author the description, showing the publishing time, decide the size of 
an image, or hide the image entirely.

The problem with using templates and views for this, is that it is a 
squared problem compared to the number of attributes. Configuration on 
the other hand is linear.

A simple example would be to have a list of checkboxes, that would 
determine what attributes would be shown in a listing. Like:

_ show title
_ show description
_ show text
_ show author
_ show "more ..." link
[select] Image size
... etc.

Obvious configurations would be the dublin core attributes. But text, 
images, event dates etc. would also be practical.

For an example you can check out the PageBuilder product which has 
something like this implemented.

http://plone.org/products/pagebuilder

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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark

http://www.mxm.dk/
IT's Mad Science

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