Any plans for a drag-and-drop interface for re-ordering pages?

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It'd be an enormous UI improvement for non-tech-savvy folks using the page CMS.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by intellin...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2010 at 7:44

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First I am not convinced that drag-and-drop is really that user friendly, 
especially 
when the page list is very big (drag-drop-scroll is painful). Is it a real 
requests 
from a client?

Secondly it's I find pretty dangerous because it kind of facilitate an 
operation that 
break the URLs. When your pages start to be linked by other websites, you don't 
want 
them to move around, ever.

For these reasons I have no plan to implement that in a near future. If you 
want to 
do it yourself I recommend to do it with a small draggable surface so 
accidental drag 
and drop are difficult to do.

What do you think? 

Original comment by batiste....@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2010 at 2:15

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While some projects with a large volume of pages might truly be less usable, I 
think
the majority of sites won't have an issue with it.

The breaking of URLs is in itself a larger (and unrelated) problem to a 
drag-and-drop
interface, as one can still reorder pages the way the interface is now. There 
should
probably be a setting to respect original URLs, but it probably needs more 
thought.

A small icon (much like the re-order icon in iPhone's interface) would be 
useful, as
well as a button to specifically enable re-ordering to avoid accidental 
reordering.

Original comment by intellin...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2010 at 7:57

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Here is a basic implementation:

http://github.com/batiste/django-page-
cms/commit/57720605cff5eb3f50baf49e5a13a8534801dc61

When the row is dropped somewhere the row is added as the child as the first 
left 
brother.

Original comment by batiste....@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2010 at 2:36

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Awesome - you rock. Giving it a shot now.

Thanks.

Original comment by intellin...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2010 at 2:42

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Hmm - can't seem to get it to work on my first try - any new settings or 
scripts to
load in for it?

Original comment by intellin...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2010 at 3:01

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$ git pull
$ ./manage.py build_media pages

Does it help? The drag and drop handle zone is the same place than the link to 
move 
the pages.

Original comment by batiste....@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2010 at 3:38

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Original comment by batiste....@gmail.com on 6 May 2010 at 7:22

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