I've been looking for a way to easily manage pages that contain a list of information. For example, a single page with a list of US States, capital cities, and current population counts. Or a list of volunteers including their interests and contact info. Or even a list of organizations contributing to a project with a paragraph or two about each. There are some modules that do things like TODO lists, task lists, etc, but nothing quite fits.
1) For maintaining a list of single items with attributes of each (like multiple rows in a table), how could this be done? I'd like the user to edit (modify/add/delete) one item at a time without opening the entire page for editing. You see this on things like Google Calendar, when you click on a field it turns into a text box ready for edits. And maybe open text boxes at the bottom for easily adding new items. For lists that get over 50, 100 items or so, editing the entire page to make one change to one item could be a nightmare.
2) For maintaining a list of items with paragraph descriptions for each (like a staff bio page with sections like interests, current projects, publications, background, etc...), I thought about creating a custom node type with each section being a different CCK field. Users still have to open the entire page for editing but at least they can deal with one section/text box at a time. Of course, this only works if I know the number of sections a priori, unless I allow my content providers the abilit to add more CCK fields!
Thanks for any ideas you may have for maintaining this type of content. The best I found so far is to use a filter (like TWikfilter ot flexifilter) module for easy editing. However, this seems to be only part of the solution.
- John
**************************************** John Callahan Geospatial Application Developer
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