[wp-hackers] Mass Edit [Category Changes]

[Danny Dawson]

I'm a fan of the checkbox method, such as Shelley and Matt are
discussing, but before I read their suggestions, I was thinking along
the lines of how Gmail handles assigning labels when viewing
individual threads: one drop down box with all categories listed,
selecting one  assigns the category and causes the label/category to
show up as a link next to the post/email header/subject.  This link
could be set to remove the category/label onclick, or a small "Remove"
icon could bet placed next to it.  Unfortunately, this requires a bit
of javascript magic, which, like Graeme, I am not a fan of, but I
thought it was worth noting as an alternative method.

--Danny Dawson

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:51:18 -0500, Shelley Powers
<burningbird at gmail.com> wrote:
> So you're saying that the person selects several rows and then add
> changes for a category across all at a time.
> 
> The problem with this is that really doesn't do a great job with
> multiple-categories. I can see a person wanting to remove one
> category, but several are removed because of the nature of the beast.
> 
> How's this, a variation on what Matt said:
> 
> Page has a post title, a dropdown for post status, a dropdown for
> comment status, and then all of the categories are listed to the side,
> with a checkbox for each -- checked if currently selected. Since the
> titles won't fit next to them, without it getting really ugly, they're
> listed as column headers, in a vertical line above each checkbox.
> 
> So my category Sensory would be like:
> 
> S
> e
> n
> s
> o
> r
> y
> 
> This cuts a bit of header space, especially if the category names are
> long. Could abbreviate the category, just show the first 10 or 20
> characters and then have this wrap a link to the category page, and
> then assign a title with the full category name.
> 
> With this, a person could go down the row, change post status, change
> comment, status, and go wild with checking and unchecking checkboxes.
> 
> Matt, were you thinking of something like this?
> 
> Shelley
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:36:47 +0100 (BST), Graeme Lennon
> <graeme at samurai.com> wrote:
> > I would suggest a side-bar with all the categories listed, like in the
> > current edit mode window, except with three radio buttons rather than
> > checkboxes. The three options would either assign the category, remove the
> > category, or leave the current status of the category alone, to the
> > selected posts.
> >
> > I'm personally not a fan of JavaScript solutions, at least when other
> > options are available.
> >
> > g.
> >
> >
> >
> > > A mass edit for posts for setting comment and post status would be
> > > good, but category changing ala MT doesn't necessarily fit the type of
> > > data model for Wordpress.
> > >
> > > In Movable Type, there is zero or one primary category and then zero
> > > or more secondary categories. It makes sense to have a dropdown box
> > > and set and re-set the primary category.
> > >
> > > Wordpress doesn't have a primarily category. It just has zero or more
> > > categories, period. So what would you show as the existing value in
> > > the box? The first one that just happens to get returned in the query?
> > > What about the others?
> > >
> > > You could do a multi-select box, but then the mass edit window will
> > > look mighty bizarre.
> > >
> > > So the question is: how would you deal with category in a mass edit page?
> > >
> > > Shelley
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:31:49 -0700, Danny Dawson <quasistoic at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >> I would be very interedted in this also.  I want to import my
> > >> uncategorized MT posts and then categorize them, but opening each post
> > >> to assign a category seems a pain...
> > >>
> > >> --Danny
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:32:56 -0700, Doug Daulton
> > >> <ddaulton at ursastudios.com> wrote:
> > >> > Does anyone know of a hack (planned or completed) that allows one to
> > >> > view X number of pposts at once and change categories and other
> > >> > details?  This would be similar to MTs "Power Edit" mode.
> > >> >
> > >> > Thanks,
> > >> >
> > >> > Doug
> > >> >
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Danny Dawson
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