Improved UI for moving to another page
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Should come up with a better UI for moving rows to another page, right now the pagination arrows are used but its not that obvious what is going on. Maybe larger arrows with text labels on the edges of the grid field something like that?
Possibly also drag-&-droppable page numbers - if it's not too much of a mission :)
Could also have hover titles when dragging e.g. "send DataObject to page 3"
Ya I like the idea of that, maybe have the text labels be "send {i18n singular name} to page #"
Desperately needed this functionality as I am struggling to move the objects in between pages when dealing with 150 pictures on the different pages. I did create a topic on silverstripe website but due to some reason it got deleted.
From you post it looks the functionality is there which I can not see, Is it possible to know how to move the objects in between pages please?
So, a couple of thoughts here:
Firstly, it may be worth mentioning in the README that people can de-paginate the list. I remember using this as a programmatic solution (obviously, if the situation allows), rather than having to explain it over & over again to clients. I asked the question of how to de-paginate GridField here once upon a time.
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CMS users being able to toggle pagination on/off in the GridField pagination area if SortableGF is active - could perhaps solve 99% of the issues?
Also, I think the issues here is mostly UX-related. Could be worth spending some time getting a good UX spread & implementing some extended CSS & JS to improve the interface. Happy to help, although I have successfully managed to safely steer clear of CMS's Entwine for 6 years now sigh it was never gonna last :P
I agree the ability to toggle pagination on and off in the GridField pagination area will solve all the issues. Similar sort of mechanism as it was version 2.4.
Do you know whether the functionality to move the objects onto mulitple pages exists or not in GridField?
@sum-github right now currently the only way to do this is to drag over the pagination arrows, this issue is primarily about improving the UI/UX to make it more friendly and easier to do.
@4t4r1 At one time (long ago) SortableGridField automatically depaginated the gridfield when you toggled the sorting. But Ingo aka chillu warned me against this since pagination does help when with resources when you have a very long list of objects to display. So I came up with the current solution. I know there is a module out there that does provide a button allowing the user to disable the pagination, I'm blanking at the moment though. I'll add it as a suggested module in composer when I build out the new solution for pagination.
I suppose I could also add a checkbox to do that too...
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Yes & no, generally if you click that button, you know what you're in for... :)
So this is what I'm thinking of doing, when you start dragging the arrow/bar on the right would appear to move the item to the next page. There would also be on on the left if you are in a middle page. It gets darker/more visible when you drag over it.
This is the module btw that has the show all support normann/gridfieldpaginatorwithshowall
Hey guys, I've just committed a change to the new-page-sort branch you guys mind giving it a try I'm curious what your thoughts are. Ended up going with something very similar to the above screenshot but with labels and a bit more visible by default.
this has been merged to master and will be included in the 0.5.0 tag shortly