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List:       bricolage-bugs
Subject:    [Bricolage-Bugs] [Bug 748] New: Default elements get in the way and can't be changed
From:       bugzilla-daemon () thepirtgroup ! com
Date:       2004-07-29 18:09:14
Message-ID: 200407291809.i6TI9EG74042 () bricolage-bugzilla ! about ! com
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           Summary: Default elements get in the way and can't be changed
           Product: Bricolage
           Version: 1.8.x - Current Stable Release
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Admin Tools
        AssignedTo: david@kineticode.com
        ReportedBy: marshall@exclupen.com


Since elements and element types aren't really deleted from the database and you
can't change an element's type once it has been created, the default templates
are very restrictive.  For example, I wanted to change the pull quote element
from an Inset to a new general Subelement type, but when you delete pull_quote
and try to recreate it as a Subelement, it fails because "pull_quote" already
exists.

The installer should have an option to not install the default elements.  This
seems easy enough by moving those SQL commands to a separate file and executing
them based on whether the user opts to install them.

Better yet, if there was a way to import elements and element types (through
SOAP?[1]), there could be no default, but several different pre-made element
sets that the user could choose to import right after installation depending on
what type of site they wanted (daily newspaper, montly magazine, normal website,
etc.).

[1]
http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.py/bricolage/bricolage.cc/trunk/elements.xml?rev=5752&view=markup

http://bugzilla.bricolage.cc/show_bug.cgi?id=748


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