Articles 2.0 New Roadmap

+1 for real Categories function.

@eighthday Wondering what you mean by using the standard manager UI? One of the things I like about Articles is that it removes posts (resources) from the tree.

I really like that too, but the bit above the list of child articles could use the standard UI and so could the article edit page.

Quote from: goldsky at Oct 17, 2013, 12:13 PM

composer like dependency manager?
so its installer won't override existing packages.

I think this is on the 2.3 roadmap.

Ability for developers to specify package dependencies in their build scripts. On installation, users will be presented with a list of missing dependencies and have the option to install them. Subsequently an installation queue will be initiated.

http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/getting-started/an-overview-of-modx/roadmap

Since a step back to a standard UI has been brought up, I think it maybe worth mentioning that there are a few new Add-ons that allow you to create "container" resources who's children are hidden from the tree and are displayed in a grid.

There is Grid Class Key by goldsky:
https://github.com/goldsky/GridClassKey

as well as Containers by modxcms:
https://github.com/modxcms/Collections

Of course neither of these are blogging tools, but to me they both do represent something a revised Articles could be built off of.

Ability for developers to specify package dependencies in their build scripts. On installation, users will be presented with a list of missing dependencies and have the option to install them. Subsequently an installation queue will be initiated.

This is available now in MyComponent, but with no user interaction. You can include subpackages in your package and they'll be automatically installed with the package unless a newer or equal version of them is already installed.

Should we thinking in terms of Articles or would we be better off building a few generic tools that could help not only blogging but any types of content, like

• A new type of parent (container) to show children in a list view, with tick boxes for batch updates
• Advanced tagging that would allow more complex categorization and front-end filtering, like filtering on multiple tags (eBay style)

I can get on with that idea. Mainly because i actually like the standard resource tree layout, even for blogs in certain scenarios, so being able to categorise more flexibly *without* changing the resource presentation. Perhaps it's unnecessary to package list presentation with categories.

Quote from: sparkyhd at Dec 19, 2013, 09:08 PM

Should we thinking in terms of Articles or would we be better off building a few generic tools that could help not only blogging but any types of content, like

• A new type of parent (container) to show children in a list view, with tick boxes for batch updates

Both Collections and Grid-Class Key do this.

https://github.com/modxcms/Collections
http://modx.com/extras/package/gridclasskey

Quote from: sparkyhd at Dec 19, 2013, 09:08 PM

Advanced tagging that would allow more complex categorization and front-end filtering, like filtering on multiple tags (eBay style)

To me, this is where a lot of the focus of Articles 2.0 would need to be. It would involve creating a scalable data model for the desired blogging features.

Thanks for the pointers to Collections and Grid-Class Key, look really useful.

Quote from: davidsmith at Oct 15, 2013, 03:05 AM

. . . I'm still unable to recommend Modx for blogging if I suspect my client might want to put posts in more than one category. It's not impossible to workaround - I use weblinks for my own blog and it's worked relatively well, but it's a crowbar solution to a problem.

I don't understand this criticism. You can assign as many tags to a post as you want. The problem for me is that version 1.7.2 got rid of the drop-down list for tags, so there's no easy way for people to pick from the existing tags. So I'm sticking with version 1.7.1 for my clients.

If I want an additional fixed Categories list, it takes just a couple of minutes to create a multi-select TV for that.