[FM Discuss] update

[John Curwood]

Oops, one other think I just noticed is in the FM front page we also
have the (also : el, nl) aditions to books that have completed
translations, this would also be good to keep in the new FM but I would
envision this happening Automagically based on the listings in the
translation and other language front pages.

cheers again,

John

On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 07:06 +1200, John Curwood wrote:
> hi Guys,
> 
> There is a couple of things I noticed this morning on the Booki
> Publisher bookinfo plugin.
> 
> 1 - I was looking at the Visibility feature for books and after many
> trials of making books visible and invisible, I quite by chance made all
> the audio books invisible. When I reloaded the clean.flossmanuals page
> the audio heading was still visible, but with no books listed under it.
> I thought since the books were invisible I should make the heading
> invisible as well so I deleted Audio from the category field for the two
> audio books, and then when I reloaded the clean.flossmanuals page there
> was a blank category with no heading and no manuals listed, where the
> audio category used to be.  I have currently set the
> clean.flossmanuals.net page up like this so you can see what I mean.  My
> suggestion is that it looks better having a named category without any
> books listed than having a blank category with no name sitting in the FM
> front page so when Save changes is clicked in the Bookinfo plugin it
> should check to make sure there is an entry in the category field for
> each book and if not it should request that a category is entered before
> proceeding.
> 
> 2 - In the current FM front page you can filter what manuals are
> displayed via operating system, I think it would be useful to also have
> this feature in the bookinfo plugin.  I have used FM before to decide
> what software to get to do a particular task, when I did this I filtered
> the front page for my operating system and then just looked at the
> manuals that were still visible to see which one looked like the best
> solution for my needs. Having that filter in place prevented me from
> loading up a manual and reading a few chapters before discovering that
> it wasn't available for my OS.  If you were to go and the filters I
> would suggest an extra option for webapps.  There are now a grow number
> of webapps that have manuals at FM and it would be useful to include the
> filter for people who are looking for web-based solutions such as
> CiviCRM and Booki.
> 
> Sorry I seem to have started ranting. 8-D
> 
> cheers,
> 
> John
> 
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