Re: [Slashcode-development] Re: Topics

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Not exactly sure how the conversation I started on section hierarchy got off
into topics, so I'll bring 'er on home.

What are your guys' thoughts on making sections hierarchial? Personally this
is something I would *really* like to see, it's almost a show stopper. So if
there are no plans to make this, and you guys would like to see it, give
some recommendations about the best way to go about architecting this and
we'll make the feature patch ourselves. (Would you integrate it into the
main base btw? Would be nice to have it in there.)

regards

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Vonnahme" <na...@th...>
To: <sla...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Slashcode-development] Re: Topics


>
> On 22 Feb 2001, Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda wrote:
>
> > The second issue is that of user interface.    One long list is a pain
> > in the ass, but when you start needing to select multiple topics, it
> > gets even harder.  Probably its not that difficult: if you and have the
> > topic defined, and additional dropdown list can appear and a topic can
> > be selected.  This is a little clunky, but relatively unobtrusive since
the
> > bulk of stories will only have 1 or 2 topics anyway.
>
> You can have a selection menu that allows multiple selections... it would
> probably make sense to have a single list for the primary topic and a
> multiple selection menu for the secondary topics.
>
> To do section-based topics it would work best, I think, to have javascript
> dynamically populate the topic selection menus based on which section is
> selected.  A lower-tech solution would be to have all the section:topic
> pairs in the topic selection menus.
>
> More javascript in the admin area would be great in general (especially in
> the variable and template areas; why not preload all the variables in
> javascript so they display instantly instead of submitting the form).
>
> -n
>
>
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