Moving pages out from under parents

[Dr.CSS]

I would like the Reorder Pages to have the ability to move pages out from under parents, would be a lot easier than opening each page and choosing a new parent or none....

just my 0.02$ usd....

[calguy1000]

Yeah, CMS could use alot of features for when migrating existing sites to CMS.  I've been doing alot of this lately....

[Dr.CSS]

I'm working on one and I need all the default pages moved out to a section header to show in another part of the page, so I have to open each one and rename it and move to the section header parent...

13 under one, 4 under another one, 2 under another, then 8 under the next one, with 7 for the top menu...

Lots of moving...

I really like that when you edit template or CSS it stays where your were when you click apply, very nice when they get long and you are trying to tweak something at the bottom....

[calguy1000]

yeah.... I've had not too much difficulty with that....

but adding pages, and maybe moving pages, maybe it'd be convenient to have a spreadsheet like interface where you could quickly and easily move things around.... but with heirarchis it gets complex

[feltch]

I would like the Reorder Pages to have the ability to move pages out from under parents, would be a lot easier than opening each page and choosing a new parent or none....

just my 0.02$ usd....

Greetings....

Im new to CMSMS but have been hosting and designing for a while now.. (Ill save the testimonial for another spot)
I would like to be able to add a new document (like in the news module) that "becomes the parent". Think of it like a "series" where the monthly or weekly content becomes the "cover page" with the same category or title. The children get bumped down as a new parent is created... The "catagory" stays the same.

As far as I can tell,  I may have to move all the documents each week or month (as the case may be) to a "new parent" in order to achieve a "dynamic cover page" for a topic series. I guess it's kinda like "news.." where you have the latest headlines, but the topic is always "the news". I dont want to create a parent page that stays the same while everything under it is changing constantly.

Best I can do for now... 
thanks to calguy and mark
feltch

[Ned Nowotny]

I would like to be able to add a new document (like in the news module) that "becomes the parent". Think of it like a "series" where the monthly or weekly content becomes the "cover page" with the same category or title. The children get bumped down as a new parent is created... The "catagory" stays the same.

For a method of doing what you describe that does not require changing your page hierarchy, see:

    Displaying the Most Recently Added Page Categorized by Template

To see this in action, go to my uncle's Need to Vent! web site and click on the Movie Reviews link.  You will be redirected to the most recently added or edited review.  From there, you can read any of the other reviews from the growing list on the left-hand side.  (It is time to provide a better method both for ease-of-use and because of Menu Manager module performance...)

While calguy1000 is right about the preferred methods for adding code blocks, I still haven't changed from the PHP file in the document root.  I will probably look at options to reduce the number of SQL queries used to generate the left-hand menu (approximately 120 queries today) before I take the relatively minor hit for the handful of queries needed to retrieve the contents of this file from the database.  However, I would like to eventually use CMSMS to fully manage everything implemented for the site.  After all, that is the point of using a CMS.  (Before that can happen,  I still need to convert nearly a hundred legacy files to CMSMS content pages instead of referencing them with CMSMS links.  Then, there are still those legacy "pages" that a previous "web site developer" created in some editor and then saved as image files...  Gah!)