[Apc-aa-coders] Changing something on lots of items

[Mitra <mit...@ea...>]

Honza,

Maybe its worth thinking a bit about the design of such a feature, 
that would make it easier for someone to pick it up and code it.

My thoughts would be ....

1: Use the select boxes on left of item manager (or Select All) to 
select a range of items,
2: Click "Edit all Items"
3: Up comes the standard EditItem page, with some kind of header so 
you know its working on lots of items.
3a - all fields left blank or
3b - all fields that are consistent across all the selected items 
filled in, all others marked specially like "*"
4: User edits fields, and clicks the update button,
5: That field on all selected items is changed.

This might NOT be that hard to code, although I don't have time to 
make it a priority (spent way too much time fixing problems, adding 
features, and now need to build some of the sites ....), and I have 
no funding for any apc-aa work.

- Mitra


At 12:39 AM +0100 27/2/03, Honza Malik wrote:
>On St, 2003-02-26 at 17:49, Karen Higgs wrote:
>>  Art McGee wrote:
>>  >
>>  > Is there a way to expire a set of items or to change the
>>  > expiry date on a set of items? I see how to delete en masse,
>>  > but being able to modify expiry dates en masse to me is a
>>  > critical feature.
>
>Unfortunately, there is no way, how to set more fields from different
>items at one time. In our TODO
>(http://apc-aa.sourceforge.net/apc-aa/doc/ROADMAP.html) we plan such
>feature for future versions of AA (see 'Group operations on articles').
>
>>  It would also be useful to know how to change a binary setting 'en
>>  masse' as art says.
>
>On the other hand, the solution for 'binary data' is already there -
>Live CheckBox.
>
>See:
>   http://apc-aa.sourceforge.net/faq/#live_checkbox
>   (for documentation)
>  and
>   http://apc-aa.sourceforge.net/apc-aa/admin/index.php3
>   user/password: demo1/demo1, slice: testone
>   (for example implementation)
>
>    Honza
>
>>  eg in our news page, the latest news shows up on a particular page
>>  http://www.apc.org/english/news because a 'highlight' checkbox has been
>>  checked for each item. i'd love to be able to uncheck all the checked
>>  boxes without having to go in and manually open each item to uncheck the
>>  darn box each month!
>>
>>  all the best to all from a sweltering montevideo
>>  karen
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