Re: gallery-title and collection-title

Matthias Dieke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.bitflux.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Christian Stocker wrote:
> 
> On 17.7.2005 19:57 Uhr, Matthias Dieke wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>I work on a project for a good friend. On her site she uses a lot of
>>galleries. Now she like to use different titles for the
>>gallery-collection-title and for the gallery itself.
>>
>>Example:
>>
>>collection title: "Summer"
>>
>>gallery title: "Summer in Paris"
>>
>>For the moment we can use a workaround with i18n-messages.
>>
>>   <message key="Summer">Summer in Paris</message>
>>
>>
>>What do you think about different titles for gallery-coll-title and
>>gallery. The title for the gallery could be optional.
> 
> 
> You hit a "flaw" in the current setup :) Where do you want to define
> that gallery-coll-title? Currently, the proper solution is in .configxml
> as a parameter to the plugin setup, but that's not very userfriendly...
> Properties are only on collection or resource level, we can't define a
> different property set for different collections, that's an all or
> nothing solution currrently.
> 
> What we need is to have something like the properties for plugins on a
> collection basis. Meaning, we should be able to give properties to a
> plugin in a collection. Like you would do if you add plugin-parameters
> in .configxml, just userfriendly :) We need some methods for that
> (besides the UI interface), so that a plugin easily can ask for them.
> 
> Maybe we just can store them in the properties table (I don't see why
> not) and then just use the general bx_resourcemanager::getProperty
> method (with some own namespaces per plugin, maybe). Still some things
> to define those properties and a plugin-property editor is needed.
> 
> Do you have any ideas, how this could be solved? Or how did you want to
> solve it?


I will think about everything. I have no concrete ideas and I'm to busy 
at the moment. When I have more time I will look for a solution and 
writing my ideas to the mailing list ;)


Matthias




> 
> chregu
> 
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