Navigate: The Next Generation Drupal Administration
11.14.2008
Sometimes a module comes out of nowhere, and blows away everything else. I believe Navigate is one of those modules.
There are lot of factors that make it awesome:
- It doesn't get in your way... it stays nearly hidden, as a little circle in the top left corner til you click it. Think designs that didn't foresee the need for massive admin functionality.
If you do click the the top left circle (I think its a steering wheel), you see this:
- You can add a single menu tree to a "block" and name it in under 8 seconds.
- It introduces the concept of "favorites". You are on a page, and type into a field, it saves the link with that name. You can even reorder them at will!
- You can insert arbitrary blocks of custom php code.
- All in all, its perfect for setting up an interface for clients who don't want to spend a 2 day retreat learning about CCK and Views.
Dude, its so hardcore, it has a screencast.
Do check it out. You will not be disappointed.
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I love drupal! Nice write
I love drupal!
Nice write up
Owner of Sprzedam dom site.
It look like nice module,but
It look like nice module,but i'll try it so I will let you know.
<?PHP echo "I'm
<?PHP
echo "I'm supecode";
?>
What's supecode? Is that some
What's supecode? Is that some urban youth speak for being on the pot?
Yep, the Drupal community
Yep, the Drupal community will enjoy this new contribution, and that it does some part in demonstrating a possible solution for integrating administrative tools with otherwise user-based theming.
Best regards, Kraig
Font River
Dude that is so hot right
Dude that is so hot right now
hotter than high school musical 4
im binning that admin menu on all my sites...
Take a look at out stab at a
Take a look at out stab at a streamlined admin interface:
http://quicksilver.goodn.eu/
Firefox 3 with Gears & Safari/WebKit only, so far.
Cheers,
Hugo
A dupe of
A dupe of http://drupal.org/project/teleport
Sigh - had to pass the captcha
Moshe, with all due respect
Moshe, with all due respect (which is a lot), you should take a closer look before calling it a dupe. This may sound harsh, but teleport doesn't even come close, it's basically a auto-complete field with an ok-button. Cobalt (previously Quicksilver) is overlapping the wish-list for teleport though, but that can be attributed to the common source of inspiration: Quicksilver.
Take a look at the screencast at http://cobalt.goodn.eu/node/5 to get a better feel for it.
Cheers
/Hugo
Hate to trouble ya, but the
Hate to trouble ya, but the only alternative is for me to sift through over 200 spams a day (many of which attempt to sound real). There's something to be said of the design work in the former, but I'll trust your judgment in regards to being a dupe.
More to the point. Navigate has that feature built in and integrated with a larger picture of an admin interface in general. The module lets you pick and choose important view settings, or panel settings, along with whatever admin menu items you may need, and quickly put them together into an interface that makes sense for THAT PARTICULAR drupal installation. The fact that it lets you build site specific admin interfaces so quickly is what makes me use the cliche "game changer" when describing it.
In a recent project -- that was still in dev -- I used some friendly non-web nerd clients as guinea pigs. Originally I had been using the admin drop down menu module (like Acquia). I switched it out with navigate without telling anyone. The next day a coworker confronted me about it, and said that the clients reported: "Suddenly it makes sense."
I was sold on the thing after using it for 20 minutes. But that sealed the deal -- to use another cliche.
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