Comments on: Expandable links

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:28:57 +0000

@Rollo: I don’t know such an implementation, And I am not sure if it makes sense to implement it in an application as the browsers already provide this functionality when you do a right-click on a link.

By: Rollo

Rollo — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:54:24 +0000

This would be perfect for links!

I e clicking a link and a tiny message appears, asking you if you want it to be opened in the current window/tab or in a new.

Maybe there is something already?

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:12:10 +0000

@GreyCells: As long as your list with commands is not too long that’s a good solution ;-)

@hydeph: Yes, it is for moving individual items.

An idea for moving multiple items is to introduce a “move” mode. The user clicks on a button to switch to the “move” mode. As long as the user is in this mode, each item he selects is moved to the other list. But it depends on the concrete application whether such a mode makes sense.

By: hydeph

hydeph — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:39:26 +0000

I like the solution you’ve come up with. I think this works really well for individual items, but I don’t think I’ve seen a really elegant method for moving multiple items between lists. It would be nice to be able to quickly select all the items I want to move maybe with a click-and-drag selection box then click a “Move to Category B” link.

If anyone knows of a slick implementation of easily moving multiple items from one list to another, let me know. :)

By: GreyCells

GreyCells — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:05:56 +0000

Hi Daniel

This is a great idea – mainly because I’m doing a similar thing :)

For ‘admin actions’ (those that are only displayed to users who have appropriate access) a small ‘[+]‘ sign is displayed top right of the div containing the item to be managed. When hovered over, a list expands with all the possible admin options (Edit, Move Up/Down, Move Above x, Move above y etc in an unordered list).

As we’re providing admin functions from the normal user pages, the great thing about using the ‘[+]‘ is that it’s small enough to not really mess up the rendering.

~GreyCells