Ryan Heneise wrote:
>> The radiant administrative interface is still a bit daunting for
>> some of our scientists
>>
>
>
> I've run into this before - I guess I just take it for granted that
> the admin interface is easy to use, because _I_ like it. But that's
> not the case for everyone. I'm curious, what about the Admin interface
> is daunting to your scientists, and how might it be improved?
>
OK, I'm not a scientist and it's not daunting for me to use the admin
interface. But a couple of things would be nice to have (perhaps):
1. A way to search for a page without having to go through the tree
hierarchy. A nice neat auto-complete field that narrows down the list
of pages based on the text you type would be great. After a few levels
of hierarchy and a lot of pages, I imagine the current navigation will
start to get a bit tedious.
2. A way to change the published status of multiple pages from the index
page directly, rather than going to each page itself.
3. On the page editing interface, a small link to "View this page" -
it's fine if it appears only after the page has been saved once (so that
Radiant can render that link). It's a bit annoying to create a new
page, but then from the index page ("View Site"), there's no way to get
to the page since the parent page that may be connecting to it is still
in cache... and you must either expire cache or type in the full URL or
something.
4. The "View Site" link to open up in a separate window.
I think I do really like the minimalist look of the admin page, but
some of the above ideas will hopefully not clutter it too much.
Cheers,
Mohit.
12/2/2007 | 10:11 AM.
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