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We, at IPS towers, often eat our own dog food. We do this with development builds to discover new better ways of presenting our product and to high light any areas which can be improved.
Rob (IPS designer / web site lead) has been working with IPD at a top secret location for top secret reasons and he's been busily offering suggestions which he'd find useful and it's been a very productive experience.
One area highlighted was the initial confusion with the components and how one uses components in a page. It was felt that it was too cumbersome to have one click on the components tab, click on the component 'Manage' link and then proceed to add or edit a new instance of that component (such as a new articles group, etc) and then, click back on the 'Content' tab, click on the page one wishes to edit to use the 'Insert IPD Tag' from the text editor.
My solution was to tweak the components framework a little and allow the IPD user to choose which type of page they want to create. If they choose advaned, they are taken immediately to the normal IPD page form (complete with proxy options, etc). If they choose a component page, they get a slightly 'dumbed' down form with separate rich text editors for content above and below the component along with a link that creates a pop-up window with the component's manage screen loaded.
The result is a much easier introduction to IPD. Advanced users will appreciate the flexibility of being able to use multiple components on a single page.
IPD: Adding a new page (Quick time .mov 7.2mb)
Rob (IPS designer / web site lead) has been working with IPD at a top secret location for top secret reasons and he's been busily offering suggestions which he'd find useful and it's been a very productive experience.
One area highlighted was the initial confusion with the components and how one uses components in a page. It was felt that it was too cumbersome to have one click on the components tab, click on the component 'Manage' link and then proceed to add or edit a new instance of that component (such as a new articles group, etc) and then, click back on the 'Content' tab, click on the page one wishes to edit to use the 'Insert IPD Tag' from the text editor.
My solution was to tweak the components framework a little and allow the IPD user to choose which type of page they want to create. If they choose advaned, they are taken immediately to the normal IPD page form (complete with proxy options, etc). If they choose a component page, they get a slightly 'dumbed' down form with separate rich text editors for content above and below the component along with a link that creates a pop-up window with the component's manage screen loaded.
The result is a much easier introduction to IPD. Advanced users will appreciate the flexibility of being able to use multiple components on a single page.
IPD: Adding a new page (Quick time .mov 7.2mb)
