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Changing the ’Edit’ layout in the admin
Posted: 26 June 2009 11:07 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 19 ]  
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Just wondering what happens with this new version if you have more than one field with the same Field label?

Will it pull them all in to the Edit screen or just the first one it finds or the last one it finds?

I know we should all exercise some good naming conventions but for me I always name the short name with usually the weblog then a dash then the type of field such as :

weblogname-body

but then as I don’t want to confuse the client I will just call it Body for the field label so that they very quickly understand what it’s for.

Just wondering what will happen when the extension encounters more than one field with the same field label really?

By the way though, thanks for the update, looks useful.

Best wishes,

Mark

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Posted: 26 June 2009 11:18 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 20 ]  
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I see what you’re saying.  If the same field set had two labels that were the same, and that was the label you wanted to display it would pull the last label (It uses a loop to pull the actual field_id, so it would ultimately just pull the last one it came two).  The functionality was added to be able to pull fields from DIFFERENT field sets into the same column on the edit tab.

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Posted: 12 November 2009 11:49 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 21 ]  
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Thanks for this extension, looking at field data “at a glance” has been a frequent request by clients, especially those with a multilingual site.

Without taking over this thread, I thought I’d like to mention a similar extension, NB show custom field data (shameless, shameless plug), that I created for a client that wanted to see extra data at a glance in the Edit section. Too bad I didn’t know of this extension before creating mine :D

That date formatting option you have is a great idea, btw smile
I might add that to my own addon, if it’s alright with you.

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Posted: 30 December 2009 11:46 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 22 ]  
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Just got off the phone with a client who has a very large library of music albums stored in a weblog, and wanted to show the artist name in the edit page table as well as the album title. I told him, “I’m sure there’s an extension out there that will do that.”  Off the phone five minutes later, and here I am!  Thanks so much for reinforcing the fact that EE is the best CMS out there.

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