One thing my customers complain about when they are using the backend of Umbraco is the time it takes to edit multiple nodes. Open, publish etc. all takes quite a bit of time.
So a "child" edit tool would often come in handy!
AFAIK Richard Soeteman has published something which does almost similar (Content Maintenance Dashboard Package), but it lacks editing possibilites and I'd like the tool to be incorporated within the Content section so that if I open a page with e.g. empoyees (where each employee is stored as a single child node) I could edit all the details for each of them based on settings defined in the "child" edit tool.
I don't have the skills nor the time to develop such a tool myself, but hope someone grabs the idea and in a future version of Umbraco it could be integrated in the core as it's really one of the few things my customers complain about.
I saw your post yesterday and although I do not currently have time to develop something like this at the moment, I do agree it would be potentially useful. The problem I see is how to layout the user interface. If you have a 10 x child nodes each with 5 tabs and 5 items on each tab, that is a lot of controls and it would actually be a nightmare user interface.
However, I can see it being useful to be able to edit a single field on all child nodes, e.g. umbracoNaviHide would be a good example.
Certainly an interesting idea and I would be interested to hear other people's thoughts?
Definitely an interesting point, but if the children are actually separate pages then editing them all individually will take time and should be expected to. I'm yet to find a CMS that offers good "bulk editing" features - but that's probably because it isn't an ordinary requirement.
If it is the case that you're using child nodes for e.g. staff member list pages, portfolio items etc I can understand the frustration - in this regard it might be useful to look at something like http://our.umbraco.org/projects/repeatable-custom-content, which removes the need to store content like this in child nodes and can be placed within a tab on the parent.
One my clients recently asked if there was a global search-and-replace feature in Umbraco. Which sounds like a great idea for a package! (Same as the other guys - if only I had more time!)
From my point of view you would need to configure which values could be edited from the parent node, otherwise you would easily end up with a messy layout and the customer would probably leave it alone!
The editable gridview system of ASP.NET is more or less what gave me the idea. Something like that could be handy I think...
Suggestion: Child edit tool
One thing my customers complain about when they are using the backend of Umbraco is the time it takes to edit multiple nodes. Open, publish etc. all takes quite a bit of time.
So a "child" edit tool would often come in handy!
AFAIK Richard Soeteman has published something which does almost similar (Content Maintenance Dashboard Package), but it lacks editing possibilites and I'd like the tool to be incorporated within the Content section so that if I open a page with e.g. empoyees (where each employee is stored as a single child node) I could edit all the details for each of them based on settings defined in the "child" edit tool.
I don't have the skills nor the time to develop such a tool myself, but hope someone grabs the idea and in a future version of Umbraco it could be integrated in the core as it's really one of the few things my customers complain about.
Hi Nikolas,
I saw your post yesterday and although I do not currently have time to develop something like this at the moment, I do agree it would be potentially useful. The problem I see is how to layout the user interface. If you have a 10 x child nodes each with 5 tabs and 5 items on each tab, that is a lot of controls and it would actually be a nightmare user interface.
However, I can see it being useful to be able to edit a single field on all child nodes, e.g. umbracoNaviHide would be a good example.
Certainly an interesting idea and I would be interested to hear other people's thoughts?
Cheers,
Chris
Definitely an interesting point, but if the children are actually separate pages then editing them all individually will take time and should be expected to. I'm yet to find a CMS that offers good "bulk editing" features - but that's probably because it isn't an ordinary requirement.
If it is the case that you're using child nodes for e.g. staff member list pages, portfolio items etc I can understand the frustration - in this regard it might be useful to look at something like http://our.umbraco.org/projects/repeatable-custom-content, which removes the need to store content like this in child nodes and can be placed within a tab on the parent.
Dan
One my clients recently asked if there was a global search-and-replace feature in Umbraco. Which sounds like a great idea for a package! (Same as the other guys - if only I had more time!)
Thanks for your thoughts guys!
From my point of view you would need to configure which values could be edited from the parent node, otherwise you would easily end up with a messy layout and the customer would probably leave it alone!
The editable gridview system of ASP.NET is more or less what gave me the idea. Something like that could be handy I think...
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