Discussion Forum

philp

Member

Registered: April 5, 2012

Posts: 25

What is the module field select box for?

When editing module views or module actions, in the Fields edit area, there is a select box on the right-hand side (beside "Add", "Many-to-Many" etc.

It's not quite clear what this should be used for, or how it is populated. An overview of this would be really useful.

benplum

Administrator

Registered: March 30, 2012

Posts: 54

Re: What is the module field select box for?

Any fields that are not used in the current view or form will be listed here. Clicking the "X" to remove a field from a view or form and move it into this list. To add the field back, simply select the name of the field and click "Add".

Say you only want the "Title" column visible in the view, you would remove all others by clicking the "X". If later on you find you need to show a "Date" column for each item, start by editing the module's view. Select the name of your date field and click "Add." It will insert a new sortable row into the resource table where you can edit the field's details. 

philp

Member

Registered: April 5, 2012

Posts: 25

Re: What is the module field select box for?

That all makes perfect sense now. Perhaps it'd be nice to label this in some way so that it's clear what the dropdown is refering to? Or maybe that kind of change could be my first Git contribution...

curt

Administrator

Registered: March 30, 2012

Posts: 7

Re: What is the module field select box for?

I think it could be labeled better. If you want to take a stab at it, or contribute in other ways follow the instructions on gitgub in the the readme.md file: https://github.com/bigtreecms/BigTree-CMS

Here is a summary of the instructions.

1. Fork it.

2. Create a branch (git checkout -b 4.0_philp_branch)

3. Commit your changes (git commit -am "labeled unused fields drop down menu")

4. Push to the branch (git push origin 4.0_philp_branch)

5. Create an [Issue][1] with a link to your branch

Thanks!
Curt