User interface idea?
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Hi everyone. What do you think would make a good interface, from the end users point of view, for the following scenario: In an ASP.NET-based content management system, the administrative user is defining navigation menus to appear at the left of a given set of pages. Each menu is standardized as a first-level list of categories, with each category containing a list of items. It is essentially a two-level menu, with the top level not links in themselves, just categories for the links to fit within. My question isn't with how to render the menus for content readers, rather what the interface should look like (for ease of use) for content creators to dynamically create the menus. Any thoughts?
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Hi everyone. What do you think would make a good interface, from the end users point of view, for the following scenario: In an ASP.NET-based content management system, the administrative user is defining navigation menus to appear at the left of a given set of pages. Each menu is standardized as a first-level list of categories, with each category containing a list of items. It is essentially a two-level menu, with the top level not links in themselves, just categories for the links to fit within. My question isn't with how to render the menus for content readers, rather what the interface should look like (for ease of use) for content creators to dynamically create the menus. Any thoughts?
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Hi everyone. What do you think would make a good interface, from the end users point of view, for the following scenario: In an ASP.NET-based content management system, the administrative user is defining navigation menus to appear at the left of a given set of pages. Each menu is standardized as a first-level list of categories, with each category containing a list of items. It is essentially a two-level menu, with the top level not links in themselves, just categories for the links to fit within. My question isn't with how to render the menus for content readers, rather what the interface should look like (for ease of use) for content creators to dynamically create the menus. Any thoughts?
Depends on who your users are. If it was me, i'd go for something like this: * Category name * First item * Second item * Third item * Another category * something in it * And something else ... Yeah. Textual list with indentation. I'm lazy. Otherwise, two list boxes (one displaying categories, the other entries for the category selected in the first) with associated controls for adding, removing, and reordering them.
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Hi everyone. What do you think would make a good interface, from the end users point of view, for the following scenario: In an ASP.NET-based content management system, the administrative user is defining navigation menus to appear at the left of a given set of pages. Each menu is standardized as a first-level list of categories, with each category containing a list of items. It is essentially a two-level menu, with the top level not links in themselves, just categories for the links to fit within. My question isn't with how to render the menus for content readers, rather what the interface should look like (for ease of use) for content creators to dynamically create the menus. Any thoughts?
use the CP style menu in the left side of the page :)
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege." "You can't have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families." - Jim McCarthy TheCardinal BlueBox Global Solutions
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use the CP style menu in the left side of the page :)
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege." "You can't have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families." - Jim McCarthy TheCardinal BlueBox Global Solutions
Well, for display, that's exactly what I'm talking about. But my question is what should the browser-based interface look like for an administrative end-user to create and edit such menus?
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Well, for display, that's exactly what I'm talking about. But my question is what should the browser-based interface look like for an administrative end-user to create and edit such menus?
treeview? :) http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/AdvancedCustomTreeViewLyt.aspx[^]
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege." "You can't have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families." - Jim McCarthy TheCardinal BlueBox Global Solutions
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Hi everyone. What do you think would make a good interface, from the end users point of view, for the following scenario: In an ASP.NET-based content management system, the administrative user is defining navigation menus to appear at the left of a given set of pages. Each menu is standardized as a first-level list of categories, with each category containing a list of items. It is essentially a two-level menu, with the top level not links in themselves, just categories for the links to fit within. My question isn't with how to render the menus for content readers, rather what the interface should look like (for ease of use) for content creators to dynamically create the menus. Any thoughts?
I would go with using the actual menu, but with functions to add or remove items only available to content creators. Some Javascript postbacks may be required, but I'm busy with much the same thing, so I'll see if I can suggest something later. Send me an email so I've got a reminder when this thread disappears.
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Hi everyone. What do you think would make a good interface, from the end users point of view, for the following scenario: In an ASP.NET-based content management system, the administrative user is defining navigation menus to appear at the left of a given set of pages. Each menu is standardized as a first-level list of categories, with each category containing a list of items. It is essentially a two-level menu, with the top level not links in themselves, just categories for the links to fit within. My question isn't with how to render the menus for content readers, rather what the interface should look like (for ease of use) for content creators to dynamically create the menus. Any thoughts?
In principle it should look as much like the final user UI as possible. WYSIWYG is still :cool:
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