Something I thought would be handy, is in the template list, say, next to or under the template name have an optional “description” field.  This would be useful especially for those of us developing sites for clients who need some educating once we’re done customizing things for them.  If I name a template “about”.. thats fine if all that is in there is “about us” information but if I have a few sections in the “about” template that they need to update I’d like to be able to tell them so in the template list so they can find it easily.

Just a thought.  When I discovered you could add instructions to custom fields (which I LOVE LOVE LOVE) I thought that this might be a cool thing to have too.  it would cut way down on my “This is where the XYZ is” tutorials. 

Either way, I am fully in love with EE and want to marry it and have its ee babies. Thanks for all you do!

I totally second all that.

Hey, no fair tag teaming! 

You do realize there are template notes you can use for this purpose. Not ideal, but it is something you can use for now.

Yes I do realize that, but its not very “at a glance” which is why I suggested it.

Sphinx - 27 November 2006 05:08 PM

Yes I do realize that, but its not very “at a glance” which is why I suggested it.

Not a bad idea, but where would it go in the control panel so it would be easy to see?

Can someone do a mockup?

Gosh, this was just a suggestion! lol.  I didn’t realize we had to do a presentation.

Not in the control panel per se.  I was thinking more on the template list screen.. like have a little “note” near the template name so you can put a little “Hey Mister Client, edit this template to change your about me snippet and your list of recommended reading” or whatever,  so when the client is looking at a huge list of templates they can easily see where to go to edit what instead of emailing me to ask.  Anything to cut down on my email!

So something that you’d use the query module to do? This assumes you use the notes field to store that text.

Added:

Yes that works.. for ME.  For a client?  It would be most convenient to have the feature (this way or any way… I don’t really have a preference) in the template list to display a description.  That’s all I am suggesting.  I’m sure it can be done this way.. I was merely making a Feature Request/Suggestion for the future.

I could probably hack around and make that happen but as a Feature Request, I thought it was a reasonable “perk” that could be added sometime in the future.

Sphinx - I was just showing you the query to use and to prove that it worked. You’d be responsible for creating a page that would show this content in a meaningful way.

Not to say that the FR is not a valid one, just that with a query you could cobble up a page outside of the control panel.

I would like to point out that there are extension hooks that could be made use of, nudge nudge.

Yeah, I know. But I’m an extension virgin.