Scrapbook block connection
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I've built a site where I've used the scrapbook quite often.
There are several blocks which I just have to edit on one page now. This is cool, but I'm getting a hard time keeping the overview of all these connections..
Does someone else have this problem? What about building an overview?
Now that we have a menu entry "scrapbook" in the dashboard, there's even the right place for it?
There are several blocks which I just have to edit on one page now. This is cool, but I'm getting a hard time keeping the overview of all these connections..
Does someone else have this problem? What about building an overview?
Now that we have a menu entry "scrapbook" in the dashboard, there's even the right place for it?
I may be misunderstanding your question Remo, but I feel like this is pretty well solved/resolved with the centralized blocks are in your dashboard on 5.3... no?
Yeah you're quite right. Problem on my side was, that I didn't think about "building a new site".
I already built that site, there are no entries in global therefore. It has been built with 5.0 and runs 5.2.1 now..
The entries in global don't automatically appear there.
Is there a way I can re-create the global entries in the scrapbook? If not, forget about it, I'm probably the only one who built a site with <5.3 and has like 200 block connections..
I already built that site, there are no entries in global therefore. It has been built with 5.0 and runs 5.2.1 now..
The entries in global don't automatically appear there.
Is there a way I can re-create the global entries in the scrapbook? If not, forget about it, I'm probably the only one who built a site with <5.3 and has like 200 block connections..
I think it depends on how you built it..
hypothetically you could write a DB script to update the parent ID of all those blocks to the page that holds the reusable stuff in the dashboard.. I'm not sure if that would bork the code you're using to automatically place them tho.
hypothetically you could write a DB script to update the parent ID of all those blocks to the page that holds the reusable stuff in the dashboard.. I'm not sure if that would bork the code you're using to automatically place them tho.
okay thanks.
I guess I'll try to create an "overview page" anyways.
If you built a page the right way you shouldn't need this, but sometimes things grow and get ugly..
Having an overview would simplfy a few things for me. I'll try to add a "break link" option too. This might be nice because then I could copy a block and modify a small part of its content.
Have you ever thought about copy & paste? Like a real clipboard? Would be nice because it would offer the capability to copy a block from one site to another.
I guess I'll try to create an "overview page" anyways.
If you built a page the right way you shouldn't need this, but sometimes things grow and get ugly..
Having an overview would simplfy a few things for me. I'll try to add a "break link" option too. This might be nice because then I could copy a block and modify a small part of its content.
Have you ever thought about copy & paste? Like a real clipboard? Would be nice because it would offer the capability to copy a block from one site to another.
im not sure that'd be realistically possible remo.. like what would go in a "real" clipboard? what if site A has a block type that site B doesnt? how many people really need top copy block instances from one site to another... on the few cases where i have wanted to do that, its always a content block - and my OS's copy and paste makes quick work of that...
I guess not a lot..
Just thought about it because I've built some kind of vector editor and it happens that we'll use pretty much the same layout for more than one site. Adding 30 rectangles twice is annoying (: But thanks god I know what sql is..
Just thought about it because I've built some kind of vector editor and it happens that we'll use pretty much the same layout for more than one site. Adding 30 rectangles twice is annoying (: But thanks god I know what sql is..
