Details
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Type:
New Feature
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Status: Done/Fixed
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Fixed/Completed
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Affects Version/s: 2.0
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Fix Version/s: Unscheduled
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
Description
"Weights", as they are used in the CiviCRM system are a very Drupal-centric way to present someone with how data fields should be displayed. If you ask me, it's really a lazy way to do it. =)
Users should be able to see other fields that are being used in the system at the time they are creating a new field. For instance, if I'm creating a new front-end user-profile form, if i've got 20 fields, and I didn't write down the weights for each one as I went along, i'd have no idea what went where.
Instead, Mambo gets around this by allowing users to see the other fields that have already been installed on a form in a dropdown list. Then, rather than using weights, you can simply have a dropdown list and let the user choose which element the field should come after.
Not sure if this will make it to the 2.0 release, but it seems much more user-friendly than weights.
-Ryan
