On Jul 18, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Ber wrote:

Take views, or cck: They are very complex, but I can learn it once, and my

clients never need to learn it. So why simplify views to make it

more "usable"? All my client sees is a table with all his products in it. He

never needs to know that I fought with views exports. That I digged for the

proper CCK field setting.

i'm a bit confused why the discussion seems to be that we have to do one or the other. what i would _love_ to see from the standpoint of configuration options is an approach where you keep things very simple on the surface, making the decisions that would be best for the 'typical' user, then if somebody reeeeeaaaallly wants to change every little thing, they click an 'advanced settings' button or something, and they can customize to their hearts delight.

of course, the ultimate in customization is to crack into the code, but i think it would be nice if we had another layer or two in between... :)