#193: Improve display of News Item & Event Dates in standard listing views & portlets

Contents

1. Definitions
2. Motivation
3. Assumptions
4. Proposal
5. Implementation
6. Deliverables
7. Risks
8. Progress log
9. Participants

Proposed by

Jon Stahl

Proposal type

User interface

State

draft

Definitions

 

Motivation

News Items and Events are core content types in Plone, and displaying them in more sensible ways out of the box eases the burden of customization.

 

Assumptions

 

Proposal

The following templates need to be modified:

 

atct_topic_view (in ATCT)

• Events: Move location and date out from discreet text
• Events: Show location and date on separate line, below the title, e.g.
  
  Event Title
    Dec 06, 2007 1:30 PM - 2:30PM -- Seattle, WA
       Description of event goes here
  
  
• Make sure we don't repeat the date if the event is only one day (see above).  Use code from event view, which handles this correctly.
  
• News Items: show effective date to anonymous users, below title, e.g
  
  News Item Title
    Dec 06, 2007
        Description of news item goes here.
  
  

Suggestions welcome on how to better style these dates!

 

folder_summary_view

•  News Items should show effective dates, same as in  atct_topic_view above.
• Events currently show start/end dates, but should be formatted same as atct_topic_view above.
  
  

folder_listing_view (standard view)

•  News Items should show effective dates, same as in  atct_topic_view above.
• Events currently show start/end dates, but should be formatted same as atct_topic_view above.
  

 

news_item view

•  Should show effective date below title, above description
  

 

event_view

It seems to me that the date of an event is one of the most important pieces of information about it, yet this is buried in the info-box.  I'm not sure how to handle this better, maybe repeat the date under the title.

Also:

• The "What" (keyword/category) should not be bulleted in the info-box.
• I'd like to see the info box <th> get less of the width, and the <td> get more.
  

 

 

 

Implementation

These are all shallow changes to Plone's default templates.  No changes to underyling logic is proposed. 

 

Deliverables

 

Risks

People who have customized these templates in their sites will not receive the changes automatically if they upgrade.  This is a minor risk. 

Progress log

 

Participants