[Radiant] Asset Manager Mephisto Style => Plugin system

[Luis Lavena]

On 9/1/06, dror tirosh <dtirosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Nicholas,
> Look at the page_part_type in the trac system for an implementation of
> something similar to what you are talking about.
> The only thing is that this doesn't come instead of behaviors, it is a
> compliment, and they work together very well. For example an event page_part
> allows you to choose a date ( instead of the text box ) and then an event
> behavior uses those dates to create tags for coming and past events.
> I'm using it in a project were my writers can hardly use word, I have
> created a rich text page_part based on fckeditor, an event page_part, an
> attachment page_part and a multiple uploads page part (this one loads images
> in the background, ajax like) that also shows a gallery.
> There is an attachment page_part in the works, but there is some problem
> with act_as_taggable not working in development environment, which makes it
> realy hard to debug anything else.
> Dror
>

Its just me or Radiant Trac is choked?

http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/147

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Anyway, page parts aren't the only thing that should be "pluggable".

Assets manager (ala Mephisto), Comment manager, ANY manager (you
named) should expose an admin tab, even if no offer a behaviour/filter
to manage

We created something similar for our applications using similar
concept of Behavior registration mechanism and later collected the
"tabs" to render them on the admin interface.


>
>  On 9/1/06, Nicholas Mulder [Mulder Consulting] <nick at mulderconsulting.ca>
> wrote:
> > > Once we have a robust plugin system going I would love to see someone
> > > create an asset management solution similar to Mephisto's. I'm not sure
> > > if buckets trump the idea for attachments, but it is definitely causing
> > > me to rethink my previous ideas about assets.
> >
> > > That would probably be up the the plugin authors (and the Mephisto
> > > people). But I do think it would be great if code could be shared.
> >
> >
> > Ya, their asset management is really good.  So simple.  So simple we all
> > could have thought of it.  But we didnt.... Rick and Justin did.  Now we
> > should ask them if they will play nice with us...
> >
> > About the plugins.  I know it is on the road map to make a really cool
> > plugin system.  I dropped a message about this a week or so ago, and got
> > no answer.
> >
> > Is there room in the plugin system for  some hooks into the admin
> > interface??  What would be really sweet is to be able to define a page
> > part as a behavior and have its interface change a bit.  Think about a
> > gallery part where instead of a great big text box, the user could add
> > descriptions to their sub-folders/albums of photo's.  Or in a menu part
> > where you could define and reorder menu items and such.  Hooking into
> > those page parts in the admin interface might not be too 'evil'... Would
> > need to be able to define a form in radius tags, then parse the result
> > of that form(s) in the behavior.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Nicholas Mulder
> >
> > Mulder Consulting
> > 905 658 5641
> > nick at mulderconsulting.ca <mailto:nick at mulderconsulting.ca>
> >
> >
> >
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