[drupal-devel] [task] Improvments to Filter UI

Thu Jul 28 13:55:32 UTC 2005

Issue status update for 
http://drupal.org/node/27364
Post a follow up: 
http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/27364

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    filter.module
 Category:     tasks
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  Bèr Kessels
 Updated by:   stefan nagtegaal
 Status:       patch

I like this very, very much!
This is - indeed - much better than the current UI. This always fits,
and makes the life of people who use a fixed width theme much nicer..

Ber, FYI (you probably know this too), 'admin/access' does also break
fixed width themes due to the fact that it expands the width of the
table when more roles are being added..

Good catch! I like it much more this way..

+1 from me...

stefan nagtegaal

Previous comments:
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Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:30:54 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

This is a mockup for the Filter UI. Currently it is soo complex, that I
dare to call it broken. 

Please comment on this, for I will not ake any patches, when the
general idea is disliked.

The idea is t split filters and input formats better. Filters are
filters, defined in modules. Input formats are bundles of filters. This
is how we have it ATM, but the interface fails to communicate that. I
tried to develop a consistent (with the rest of Drupal) interfce that
makes it clearer what is what. 

The menu is as follows:
* administer
** ....
** settings
*** input formats
*** filters
** ...

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Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:37:10 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/input-formats_list1.png (16.34 KB)

* administer
** ....
** settings
*** input formats >> see attachement 1
*** filters
**

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Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:39:02 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/input-formats_add.png (23.42 KB)

* administer
** ....
** settings
*** input formats >> see attachement 2, tab 2
*** filters
** 

Note: The default checkbox lmay seem a bit odd. But checking it will
remove the "default status" from the current "default" one and make
this one "default". The help text, and a drupal_set_message should
explain this.

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Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:40:08 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/input-formats_edit_format.png (22.17 KB)

* administer
 ** ....
 ** settings
 *** input formats >> clicking a 'configure' link in the table of
attachement 1
 *** filters
 **

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Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:40:55 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/input-filters_list.png (36.24 KB)

* administer
 ** ....
 ** settings
 *** input formats
 *** filters >> see attachement 4
 **

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Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:41:40 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/input-formats_edit.png (22.63 KB)

* administer
 ** ....
 ** settings
 *** input formats
 *** filters >> clicking a 'configure' link in the table of attachement
4
 **

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Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:46:27 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

IMO this makes the interface easier. But other disagree. And because it
also removes one feature: (being able to use E.g. HTML in different
input formats, with different settings)
I'll simply wont fix this :(

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Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:36:12 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/filter_module_UI_consistancy.patch (10.28 KB)

I decided to go for it anyway. Be it in a slightly different way then my
initial mockups. The difference is that I left the filters where they
are, hidden beneath the formats.

So, here is the patch that makes the filter UI more consistent with
screens like blocs, menus, vocabularies et al

also nice to note is that:
93 lines are added, 104 are removed. So netto we have less code :)
(cvs diff filter.module | grep ^+ | wc -l)

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Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:37:02 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/input-formats_list_html.png (44.64 KB)

Here is how the listing now looks.

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Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:37:57 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/input-formats_edit_format_html.png (113.71 KB)

And the "configure" screen.
The 'add' screen looks exactly the same, only with the default values
pre-filled.

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Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:39:19 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/input-formats_edit_format_too_long.png (121.82 KB)

Oh, And here is a really nice example of why the current screen is no
good.
And here I "only" have four roles. I run a site with 12 roles, imagine
this screen then!

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Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:48:35 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/filter_module_UI_consistancy_HEAD.patch (10.24 KB)

And here is a pathc for HEAD (I forgot that I developed this on a 4.6.2
codebase. Sorry)