GUI enhancements with admin2++ eZ Publish extension

• Publié le 28 Mars 2010 à 23:10
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The blog post is the continuation of Frontend performance enhancements with admin2++ eZ Publish extension published a few days ago. This one is about the additions of the admin2++ eZ Publish extension in terms of GUI and new features.

Current features provided by admin2++ extension

admin2++ extension currently provides the following features by using jQueryUI 1.8 in the new eZ Publish administration interface :

• it improves the dashboard to be easily configurable by each user (drag'n drop of blocks, ability to remove or add blocks)
• it adds some new dashboard blocks (System infos, Feed reader, Advanced search form)
• it replaces View link in context menus by a Preview link that loads a preview in AJAX
• it makes the right menu loadable in AJAX instead of requiring a page refresh when revealing it
• it adds the ability to resize the area dedicated to preview tabs, details tabs, ...
• it improves default stylesheet (colors in popup menu and dashboard blocks, round corners on all fields, yellow background to highlight currently focused field, ...)
• it adds a date picker for ezdate and ezdatetime attribute (based on jQuery instead of the default YUI2 one)

All those new features are visible in this screencast :

Future developments

I have a lot of ideas :

• jQueryUI 1.8 now includes an Autocomplete widget that would be useful to type keywords
• use of AJAX for the several operations (bookmark, add to notifications, ...)
• implement JavaScript validation on edit form as written earlier here
• drag'n drop in content tree
• add new dashboard blocks (personal note, inline search, ...)
• improve style for a more clear separations between areas
• ... and many more !