Re: lacking of multi path query in p.a.querystring/ p.a.collection/ ...

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Jens W. Klein <jens-/[email protected]> wrote:
> Current plone.app.collection lack multi path queries. So at the moment
> one can search only in one subpath. Even if the new collections are
> overall a big step forward: That step back in path handling is bad.
>
> To migrate old ATTopic based sites its a must have and also my poweruser
> are loving this features.
>

Yes! And right now there's no way to select only the selected folder,
not the whole subtree.



> So i hacked a quick fix for them, which is ui/ux wise not nice, since
> one have to enter the paths in a string field, but it works and let you
> migrate old collections with mutli path queries.
>
> See https://gist.github.com/jensens/6356051 for the simple code lines to
> make it work.
>
> Unfortunately the set of available widgets is hacked statically in
> plone.formwidget.querystring.browser/input.pt - so it was not possible
> to register an own nice widget here.
>
> For me its ok to have the code in my customer project for now. If theres
> a broader ok, i can add my code to plone.app.querystring.
>
> Anyway, I think we need to rethink the path-handling. By default we have
> 2 different methods to add path search and even for my power users its
> difficult to explain. This should be just a checkbox in the widget.
>
> A step forward in the way how a widget could look like posted suption on
> irc and can be found here:
> http://plone.github.io/mockup/dev/#patterns/relateditems
>
> Imo all widgets to select some items from the portal must have the same
> look aand feel to have a consistent and good ux.
>
> thx Jens
> --
> Klein & Partner KG, member of BlueDynamics Alliance
>
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