Hi there all,
Apologies for bringing this up again, but I'd love someone to have a look at the following;
A mod which allows;
1) A listing of all categories to be placed on the add/modify form.
2) Buttons to allow the site to be added / deleted from various categories (attached pdf shows it far better)
3) Restrict users to being allowed to add their sites to a maximum of three categories.
4) Allow users to modify the categories their site is listed in by using the modify form at a later date.
5) Similar system to allow admin edits.
Why not use some of the mods listed below?
1) Useability
2) Useability
3) etc etc
I want someone to look at a mod / plugin which is easy for users to understand and use. I did a very quick and nasty mock up of a potential "add" form which may help to explain more what I'm after.
Already you can see that my fictional category names may get too long to be sensible to list like this.
Any other suggestions?
Having lurked for ages in these forums, I've never seen a mod that looked simple from a user point of view, and yet still retained the power of other features in Links SQL.
I hope someone can help,
Piers
Other relevant threads
The following mod (Multiple categories, Add.pm, Modify.pm : major problems) only allows display of which categories a link is in, and doesn't allow the user to change them;
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=207024#207024
The following mod (multiple category selection) is ok for people who are computer literate and have a short list of categories, but most users can't hold CTRL and select the right categories. It also is very difficult to see which categories are already selected, when you have a long list of categories. This is particularly true when you come back to modify a link.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=184862#184862
More discussion of how to display which categories a link is listed in (display category path in link.html);
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=151933#151933
Apologies for bringing this up again, but I'd love someone to have a look at the following;
A mod which allows;
1) A listing of all categories to be placed on the add/modify form.
2) Buttons to allow the site to be added / deleted from various categories (attached pdf shows it far better)
3) Restrict users to being allowed to add their sites to a maximum of three categories.
4) Allow users to modify the categories their site is listed in by using the modify form at a later date.
5) Similar system to allow admin edits.
Why not use some of the mods listed below?
1) Useability
2) Useability
3) etc etc
I want someone to look at a mod / plugin which is easy for users to understand and use. I did a very quick and nasty mock up of a potential "add" form which may help to explain more what I'm after.
Already you can see that my fictional category names may get too long to be sensible to list like this.
Any other suggestions?
Having lurked for ages in these forums, I've never seen a mod that looked simple from a user point of view, and yet still retained the power of other features in Links SQL.
I hope someone can help,
Piers
Other relevant threads
The following mod (Multiple categories, Add.pm, Modify.pm : major problems) only allows display of which categories a link is in, and doesn't allow the user to change them;
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=207024#207024
The following mod (multiple category selection) is ok for people who are computer literate and have a short list of categories, but most users can't hold CTRL and select the right categories. It also is very difficult to see which categories are already selected, when you have a long list of categories. This is particularly true when you come back to modify a link.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=184862#184862
More discussion of how to display which categories a link is listed in (display category path in link.html);
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...i?post=151933#151933