Content Blocks Separtors

[kanate]

Is there a way to add seperator to the template? so that in admin when you edit the page there'd be separators to separate the group of blocks?

Sometime my template has 10+ blocks and it's getting very confusing for clients.
for example, slideshow on homepage, on each slide, there's title, slidetext and slideimage. If there're 3 slides, the page edit would have it like this
[slide 1 title]
[slide 1 text]
[slide 1 image]
[slide 2 title]
[slide 2 text]
[slide 2 image]
[slide 3 title]
[slide 3 text]
[slide 3 image]

It would be great if I could add seperators so it's showing
[slide 1 title]
[slide 1 text]
[slide 1 image]
-----------------
[slide 2 title]
[slide 2 text]
[slide 2 image]
-----------------
[slide 3 title]
[slide 3 text]
[slide 3 image]
-----------------

[Wishbone]

You should be able to separate your blocks any way that is valid HTML. Add a , add 's with borders, etc.. Maybe I'm not understanding your question. Maybe a link to the page, and a code snippet from the relevant part of your template would help.

[Dr.CSS]

It seems like you are talking about when you edit a page, no there is nothing you can do in the template to make those lines show when editing a page...

[Wishbone]

The subject was "Content Block Separators" which suggests multiple content blocks or GCBs... A detailed explanation of what you want, a link to the page and the contents of your template might help us understand what you need.

[kanate]

It seems like you are talking about when you edit a page, no there is nothing you can do in the template to make those lines show when editing a page...

Yes, that's what I want. Says In template I have
{content block="Slide 1 Title"}
{content block="Slide 1 Text"}
{content block="Slide 1 Image"}
{content block="Slide 2 Title"}
{content block="Slide 2 Text"}
{content block="Slide 2 Image"}
{content block="Slide 3 Title"}
{content block="Slide 3 Text"}
{content block="Slide 3 Image"}

When I go to edit page using this template, these blocks are all next to each other and really hard to tell which is which. Would be great if somehow in template I could add something like {content separator} or something like that and in the page edit it show line cut to separate these blocks

[Wishbone]

As I mentioned, you can do anything you want in the template with HTML to separate them, such as:

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<div class="content">{content block="Slide 1 Title"}</div>
<div class="content">{content block="Slide 1 Text"}</div>

Where the div.content class has some kind of border


..or something simple as:

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{content block="Slide 1 Title"}
<hr />
{content block="Slide 1 Text"}
<hr />

to put a line between them.

[kanate]

As I mentioned, you can do anything you want in the template with HTML to separate them, such as:

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<div class="content">{content block="Slide 1 Title"}</div>
<div class="content">{content block="Slide 1 Text"}</div>

Where the div.content class has some kind of border


..or something simple as:

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{content block="Slide 1 Title"}
<hr />
{content block="Slide 1 Text"}
<hr />

to put a line between them.

You missed my point. I want separtor in "Edit" Page in Admin, NOT when viewing page.

[uniqu3]

Install Advanced Content module and you can separate it by Tabs.

[Wishbone]

Ahh.. I understand now.. Sorry about that!

[calguy1000]

When I see posts like this I tend to think people are trying to use the wrong tool for the job... kinda like using a butter knife as a hammer... it may work 'okay' for some jobs, but its definitely not ideal and you'll probably have more problems down the road due to doing things this way.

Content pages aren't designed to be 'universal data types' where you just add fields into them and make them look like some kind of other solution.  They aren't designed for it, and aren't efficient at it.  Content pages are designed to simply show HTML pages, and may 'include' output from other modules.  This is where they are efficient.

This is where modules come in and are supposed to be used.  A module like Album, Uploads even Products and News can be easily massaged to create various albums that can then be displayed as a slideshow.

[kanate]

When I see posts like this I tend to think people are trying to use the wrong tool for the job... kinda like using a butter knife as a hammer... it may work 'okay' for some jobs, but its definitely not ideal and you'll probably have more problems down the road due to doing things this way.

Content pages aren't designed to be 'universal data types' where you just add fields into them and make them look like some kind of other solution.  They aren't designed for it, and aren't efficient at it.  Content pages are designed to simply show HTML pages, and may 'include' output from other modules.  This is where they are efficient.

This is where modules come in and are supposed to be used.  A module like Album, Uploads even Products and News can be easily massaged to create various albums that can then be displayed as a slideshow.

I understand your point. maybe i gave you the bad example, its not just for slideshow. the usefulness of the separators come in on the complex page like homepage with many call to action blocks and we want to give client  to be able to edit them but limit them on what they can do at the same time; many content blocks.