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Simple CCK - a simplified User Interface for CCK

Submitted by zserno on July 8, 2009 - 10:15
Your session in a few words: 
A simplified User Interface for CCK
Track: 
User experience and design
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Beginner
Language: 
English

This talk is going to present a module that we developed to make it possible for end-users to work with CCK.

  • Basically it's a UI module on top of CCK built to improve it's usability.
  • A tool you can give your customers to build their own content types - without previous Drupal knowledge - in minutes.
  • A way to build new content types with custom fields in an easy, drag and drop way.

In the session we are going to show:

  • How it works.
  • Some existing and potential use cases.
  • Technical solutions we did during development (e.g. how to leverage CCK functions in our module or how to make a drag and drop interface using the jQuery UI library).

While a big chunk of the session will be technical, everyone is welcome to attend. This is a tool that aims to improve usability, thus ideas by non-technical people are more than welcome.

Where?

Submitted by Bojhan on July 9, 2009 - 14:46.

Could you please link what your project page is? There is a major movement on the CCK front - if you have managed to make it completely more usable, then it should be in the community already.

Released

Submitted by zserno on August 2, 2009 - 14:58.

As I said, project page is ready as well as the first beta release. Check http://drupal.org/project/simple_cck

Here is a preview

Submitted by zserno on July 9, 2009 - 22:43.

I don't have a project page yet, because it's still very fresh. I'm planning to put it on d.o of course in the very near future. In the meantime please take a look at this blog post to get an idea about what it is: http://ruk.ca/article/5415