[ic] PHP/IML

[Paul Jordan]

> If anything, this is a request for the UI admin to be more customizable,
> just like the regular IC pages.  The meta data thing is great, but doesn't
> translate across everything.  For example, how do you customize
> the way the
> order listing is displayed?  I'd like to be able to mark items as shipped
> from the listing page instead of having to click through to every item
> shipping status.  This was EASY to do in PHP, but then I had to create the
> customer confirm email in PHP too.  The other thing I had to do was limit
> which items a shipping users sees based on the shipping method, because I
> have offices in USA, New Zealand, UK, Australia, and Canada, that are all
> shipping directly.  There is absolutely NO way to create this permission
> structure in IC Admin, but in PHP, it was cake.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -RM


Here here Russ, I support that :)

I think more rework for admin is in call, and less for foundation. I also
think in order to compensate for this, it would be nice if on the icdevgroup
site, they had volunteers submit their catalogs and make them *DEMO
catalogs, free for others to study. Obviously the devgroup would select
catalogs that have reworked the pages greatly, and some that haven't. The
volunteer could omit any portions that where sensitive, like in my case, the
downloadable goods, etc.

Thus picking up some slack in catalog examples and freeing up the Gurus for
Admin rework.

ADMIN ties my hands too, in a lot of ways. I am not complaining, I could
never develop something like IC. However it does seems that admin is falling
behind IC.

Just a thought

Paul