Is there a way to show and hide properties and tabs in a content node?
This is something that has bothered me for quite some time.
Scenario 1: You make document types for a purpose. Then that purpose changes and you must add more properties and tabs. The annoying thing is that it messes up the elegant interface you created for your cms editor. Now you have properties and tabs in some content nodes which are never used. Dont you wish you could hide them?
Scenario 2: You are told "the client doesnt need that functionality". You KNOW that they will ask for it eventually because IT JUST MAKES SENSE. So you add the properties and tabs to the document type anyway because it will save you a world of pain having to do it later. But dont you wich you could hide those properties and tabs?
Is there a way to show and hide properties and tabs in a content node? There is now:
Hey - just downloaded and tried your package, and it's really awesome. I like the granularity of being able to hide tabs or properties or a combination for each doctype.
The one thing I think would improve it a lot would be if the main admin account (id 0) still sees all the properties and tabs though. So that if the properties are there for more back-end configuration, they're hidden from client users, but the developer/admin main account can still see and edit them?
Handy package! I had the same suggestion as Chris in mind, so I guess it makes sense ;-)
I also encountered a (small) bug: if there's a property on the page which has a description that contains quotation marks "like this", it will break the JS serializer.
Not a big issue though, not using any quotation marks is also acceptable.
Is there a way to show and hide properties and tabs in a content node?
This is something that has bothered me for quite some time.
Scenario 1:
You make document types for a purpose. Then that purpose changes and you must add more properties and tabs. The annoying thing is that it messes up the elegant interface you created for your cms editor. Now you have properties and tabs in some content nodes which are never used. Dont you wish you could hide them?
Scenario 2:
You are told "the client doesnt need that functionality". You KNOW that they will ask for it eventually because IT JUST MAKES SENSE. So you add the properties and tabs to the document type anyway because it will save you a world of pain having to do it later. But dont you wich you could hide those properties and tabs?
Is there a way to show and hide properties and tabs in a content node? There is now:
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/uhidesy
Hey - just downloaded and tried your package, and it's really awesome. I like the granularity of being able to hide tabs or properties or a combination for each doctype.
The one thing I think would improve it a lot would be if the main admin account (id 0) still sees all the properties and tabs though. So that if the properties are there for more back-end configuration, they're hidden from client users, but the developer/admin main account can still see and edit them?
Hey Chris
Thanks for the suggestion. That would definitely be useful. Maybe I'll just grey out the tab and property names for admin users.
Hey Anthony,
Handy package! I had the same suggestion as Chris in mind, so I guess it makes sense ;-)
I also encountered a (small) bug: if there's a property on the page which has a description that contains quotation marks "like this", it will break the JS serializer.
Not a big issue though, not using any quotation marks is also acceptable.
Cool... working on that admin version.
Version 1.1 to be released in a dozen hours or so...
Release often, release early!
Hey guys
I've updated uHidesy with Chris's suggestion. Check it out!
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/uhidesy
Works for me, thanks for the quick update Anthony! :-)
I'm open to anymore feedback if you have any. I want my stuff to be as cool, useful, and intuitive as I can make it.
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