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#180: Add a RichText field to Smart Folders
- Contents
Smart Folders would be much more flexible in real-world deployments if there was a RichText field before the results listing.
- Proposed by
- Jon Stahl
- Proposal type
- User interface
- Assigned to release
- State
- completed
Motivation
Smart Folders is an insanely useful feature for building pages that list query results.
However, in real-world situations, a site editor will often want to preface the listing with some richly formatted text.
Smart Folders currently allow only a "description."
Adding a RichText field to Smart Folder would make it much, much more versatile, and reduce the need for subclassing.
Proposal
David "Siebo" Siedband has already implemented this in his "RichTopic" product.
Agree, but...
Posted by
Christian Schneider
at
February 13, 2007 - 00:23
... wouldn't it make sense to give the page an optional "show listing" button or something? That one could also be applied to normal folders. I often miss having the folder listing and a text box in the content area at the same time. I usually have a folder, hook it up to a default page and then modify some view so that the page can show the folder contents if I want. Of course the smart folder would have to get a "default page" option and maybe the navtree should display folder contents of smart folders like it does show the contents of normal folders. It would keep the smart folders and folders somewhat "clean" while still enabling the use of some fancy text.
…no button
Posted by
Geir Baekholt
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February 15, 2007 - 10:43
don't use content editing forms for defining the layout. Different layouts should be implemented with the selectable views. More views for smart folders can be useful.
Agree