symphonycms/symphony-2 — Issue #832: UI: Data Source Editor
Author: nilshoerrmann
Created: 2011-10-17 07:36:22+00:00
State: open
Labels: to discuss, ux-ui

It's planned to change the implementation of the Data Source editor in Symphony 2.3. The general ideas are:

- Make the editor extensible (allow extensions to provide more interfaces).
- Separate the interfaces (so each interface will contain it's own `Included elements` – this is important to reduce the complexity of the underlying layout logic which is currently causing trouble every now and then).

In this context I'd like to propose to separate the Data Source groups from the `Sources`:

![DS Editor](http://projekte.nilshoerrmann.de/screenshots/sym_dseditor.png)

Following this concept we'd have main select in the `ul.actions` giving the following default options:

- Sections (default)
- Author
- Navigation
- Remote XML
- Static XML
- Remote JSON
- + more options provided via extensions

Thoughts?

/cc @brendo, @eKoeS, @nickdunn