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Hello everyone,
I’ve recently started a new job with a company who uses EE as its cms of choice and as a total EE newb I’m lucky that the person who I took over from was/is a pretty advanced EE user so I was able to get “up to speed” very quickly. (loving it by the way, really great cms imo)

Anyhoo I’ve just completed a magazine site and the client is very happy with it..from a design and functionality standpoint, however I’ve come across a bit of a problem organising the back-end. The main problem is the previous version of the site was built in Joomla and in the back-end there was a method to organise everything on an issue by issue basis and the client would like this functionality…eg: the magazine comes out every month and the client would like to be able to say, organise the content for a specific month, (if for instance they want to copy an article from January).

At the moment if the client chooses content/edit they just see a huge list of entries which confuses the hell out of them (I know there are search filters in place but the client is from a print background and has little to no web/cms experience) so I’m wondering if theres a way in EE to organise the content by an issue to issue basis (or month to month)?

This probably dosent make a lot of sense but it would be similar to organising all the entries for a particular issue into a month “folder” eg:all the January issue content is contained in a “folder” (or category or something) called January 2012 is this possible?

thanks in advance for any replies/suggestions

(the site is http://thegloss.ie/ and I can understand the designers dilemma, from a print perspective they literally make a folder called say “january 2012 issue” and then add the content to it and similarly for future issues I’m trying to figure out a way that the backend of the website reflects this in some way)

I suggest you take a look at Zenbu.  That add-on takes the chaos of the edit list and makes it readable and sortable.

The downside that I have seen, if there is one, is that the “clone” add-on from Max Lazar, will not work when Zenbu is enabled.  So it’s a tradeoff - easy filtering and organization of the edit screen, or the ability to quickly and easily duplicate an entry.

I suggest you take a look at Zenbu.  That add-on takes the chaos of the edit list and makes it readable and sortable.

The downside that I have seen, if there is one, is that the “clone” add-on from Max Lazar, will not work when Zenbu is enabled.  So it’s a tradeoff - easy filtering and organization of the edit screen, or the ability to quickly and easily duplicate an entry.

Wow! thanks John, this is exactly the solution I’m looking for.

Hi bootsy and John,

Zenbu developer here 😉
Just wanted to add a quick note on John’s comment that Zenbu supports the MX Cloner add-on. It’s been added since Zenbu 1.3.0 (Ref)

On that, thanks for mentioning my add-on, John 😊

Nicolas - that’s awesome news.  I have to download the latest version and update then!