Cleaing up Project Page clutter
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On my project page I'm starting to gather a lot of clutter.
It's quite common for me to "stage" a site before launching it. As a result I wind up with an entry of "stage.myprojectdomain.com" on my project page listed as the "Master" instance.
When I launched the site, I wind up with "www.myprojectdomain.com" listed as the "Stage" instance. This is somewhat counterintuitive because most folks don't launch a production site before they launch a staging site.
I've seen comments in the forums that suggest "you are the only person who can see that, so it's not hurting anything", however it's getting to a point where I have a lot of clutter, plus the "Master" instances are most often my now non-existent staging sites and so I can't see a concise list of the versions of all my sites.
As a site owner, I should be able to reassign the entry type and remove domains from the list. Also as owner, I should be able to reassign ownership to another c5.org user.
Until these features are put in place, this page becomes a little less useful to me each time I launch a new site.
There is a good feature hidden in here, but let's put the polish on it and add these few remaining features before I forget about this page all together.
It's quite common for me to "stage" a site before launching it. As a result I wind up with an entry of "stage.myprojectdomain.com" on my project page listed as the "Master" instance.
When I launched the site, I wind up with "www.myprojectdomain.com" listed as the "Stage" instance. This is somewhat counterintuitive because most folks don't launch a production site before they launch a staging site.
I've seen comments in the forums that suggest "you are the only person who can see that, so it's not hurting anything", however it's getting to a point where I have a lot of clutter, plus the "Master" instances are most often my now non-existent staging sites and so I can't see a concise list of the versions of all my sites.
As a site owner, I should be able to reassign the entry type and remove domains from the list. Also as owner, I should be able to reassign ownership to another c5.org user.
Until these features are put in place, this page becomes a little less useful to me each time I launch a new site.
There is a good feature hidden in here, but let's put the polish on it and add these few remaining features before I forget about this page all together.
a notes section for one, like the notes thing in the dashboard i guess
Well, how about in lieu of letting us delete them, we can "Archive" them?
To compliment this, Archived sites wouldn't display, but there would be a filter at the top to show "All | Archived | Active" or something to that effect. Active wouldn't be the best filter as in my mind it also includes Stage sites.
As far as the Management Team section, really it's not far off. Being able to delete is certainly a big part of it that is already there. As an "Owner", I'd like to be able to shed ownership to another user. Doing so would automatically cast me to lowly developer status with some warnings before doing so. It might also be nice to be able to enter a name or description for each person on the Management Team since usernames aren't always based on real name.
That's it... Not too much to make it vastly more useful.
Thanks for listening.
Jereme
To compliment this, Archived sites wouldn't display, but there would be a filter at the top to show "All | Archived | Active" or something to that effect. Active wouldn't be the best filter as in my mind it also includes Stage sites.
As far as the Management Team section, really it's not far off. Being able to delete is certainly a big part of it that is already there. As an "Owner", I'd like to be able to shed ownership to another user. Doing so would automatically cast me to lowly developer status with some warnings before doing so. It might also be nice to be able to enter a name or description for each person on the Management Team since usernames aren't always based on real name.
That's it... Not too much to make it vastly more useful.
Thanks for listening.
Jereme
To delete a youtube video (or multiple youtube videos) go tohttp://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhum... while logged in. Click a check box next to a video, then click delete.
I wish that it wasn't an entirely new key for each install. I have multiple copies of the same site where I started development, borked the site and then started over. It would be nice to mark one inactive and merge it into a live one, with all the licenses transferring. These are usually at the same URL, but different databases.
Maybe if I could write the key myself and assign it to a site from the dashboard, then these sites with the same URLs but different marketplace keys wouldn't bug me so much.
It would probably be more of an issue for me if I had a bunch of client sites, but I don't right now. And I haven't been asking for support on anything, so that's a moot issue, too.
Dunno, overall, it just seems kind of janky.
I wish that it wasn't an entirely new key for each install. I have multiple copies of the same site where I started development, borked the site and then started over. It would be nice to mark one inactive and merge it into a live one, with all the licenses transferring. These are usually at the same URL, but different databases.
Maybe if I could write the key myself and assign it to a site from the dashboard, then these sites with the same URLs but different marketplace keys wouldn't bug me so much.
It would probably be more of an issue for me if I had a bunch of client sites, but I don't right now. And I haven't been asking for support on anything, so that's a moot issue, too.
Dunno, overall, it just seems kind of janky.
I would like to delete also or have the "active" button... pleease
You can archive projects today. Just hit edit on a project and look for the deactivate project button towards the bottom.
We will look into "deleting" projects and project URLs at some point in the future, but technically there's no reason you'd need to worry about either one.
We will look into "deleting" projects and project URLs at some point in the future, but technically there's no reason you'd need to worry about either one.
you can now delete projects by going into editing them first.
Now that this is available what about this that you said in earlier posts:
>> "The "found locations" list that emerges... I can see giving the owner the right to choose an "Active" one..." <<
I'd really like that because it really bothers me that on the Projects page all I see is a list of "localhost" addresses because that's the first place I usually connect them to the community.
Br,
Antti
>> "The "found locations" list that emerges... I can see giving the owner the right to choose an "Active" one..." <<
I'd really like that because it really bothers me that on the Projects page all I see is a list of "localhost" addresses because that's the first place I usually connect them to the community.
Br,
Antti
The "found locations" list that emerges on any given project page is more of a historical count of IPs/namespaces that have connected to the community with the same database key.. I can see giving the owner the right to choose an "Active" one, but i'm unlikely to want to let you delete them entirely.
What about the management team section of the project pages...
What additional functionality should be built into these project pages to make them useful?