WORKSPACES: which ones should we make?

[Dennis]

Over the past months multiple users have complained about the lack of admin workspaces in Pixelpost. We, the Pixelpost team, are wondering which admin workspaces you guys need.

So here's your chance to get some more admin workspaces! Please tell us the following information:

Workspace in : General Info
Needs menuitem: yes
If above is "NO" code should be executed before/after: none
Additional information: none

As you might have guessed we have implemented a new workspace in the general info tag so users can add submenu's there.

[austriaka]

a workspace for the images list would be great to insert functions for each image displayed
KArin

[Dennis]

Please provide more information. When does the workspace have to be activated? When loading the list of images in the admin panel (by clicking on images in the menu)?

[austriaka]

i meant a position inside the "while" where the list of images is called:
while(list($id,$datetime,$headline,$body,$image,$c ategory) = mysql_fetch_row($images)) {
$headline = pullout($headline);
...
...
echo "<li><a href=\"../index.php?showimage=$id\"><img src=\"../thumbnails/thumb_$image\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Click to go to image\" /></a>
...
####
eval_addon_admin_workspace_menu('image_list');
####
echo "</li>";


This would be necessary to add an addon function to each image displayed in list (IE photographer when using Andrews custom fields addon).

KArin

[Dennis]

Could you give me the location of the code you gave above?

[austriaka]

in pp/admin/images_edit.php
"while" is in line 201
"echo" is in line 207
workspace should be between the <li> and </li> Tags of the image stuff (in echo) so one can add additional info here

KArin

[Dennis]

KArin, did you test this code? (e.g. do you have your files modified?)

[austriaka]

I tested it with inserting the additional workspace before the <li>-Tag mentioned above, but this does not produce proper HTML.
You may download my private_addon (beta) and have a look at it: http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=5642
In this thread you will find also a screenshot of images list that will describe what I mean.

KArin

[Dennis]

what do you mean with proper html? If you just echo "Access: Public" this will work IMHO

[austriaka]

yes, but "Access: Public" is located between </li> and <li>, because my workspace is located before the <li>.
Is it a problem to make a workspace between <li> and </li>?
I thought it would be interesting to have a workspace there, ao an addon could place some informatioen here, for example an image statistic or a tag from Andrews custom fields addon. That reduces the need of own admin menus for image list views

KArin

[Dennis]

I'm still not getting it. You placed the workspace in the wrong spot I think.

[austriaka]

Perhaps we should better discuss it out per PM/ICQ and publish only the results here ;-)
Good Night & sleep well to all
KArin

[Dennis]

I mailed you KArin.

Anybody interested in adding more workspaces???? Now's your chance, otherwise you might have to wait for the new release!

[austriaka]

Another wish to 1.6:
I found that if you use a new template page in v1.5, the image-related Pixelpost Tags are not working anymore.
The only solution right now for calling image related tags within a new template page of an addon is to hack the index.php to ask for some addon related things and call the correct template page within the image print part.

It would be great if Version 1.6 could provide some workspace for calling addon-related template pages. So an Addon could use its own template page and still have all of the Pixelpost Tags usable.
It should work if the workspace to change $tpl is in image print part around line 256 for example, before the first tag replacing in $tpl.

Perhaps this would make sense for alternative browse and comment templates as well.

I hope, I could explain it :-)
KArin