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Way to "Review" Big Layouts

Asked by Paul Cashman

I ran into a problem with big layouts that had 20 or more Items.
Using the editor to find old items or bad links to web pages ( I build a lot of the content in php and javascript) was very hard so I wrote some PHP to pull it from the sql server and parsed the xml out to a table.

Using that script I can see all of the items in sequence and their durations. This helps me see the sequence very clearly and and I can easily see bad links or old content.

I added a link to the php script in the layout.class.php passing the $layoutid to the script to look up the data. I also made any "webpage" media to generate a link that opens in a new window so I could check them quickly.

All of my layouts only have one Region so I have not tested it too much with layouts that contain multiple regions but it seems to work.

I could post the code if anyone is interested.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

Hi Paul

It certainly sounds interesting. Feel free to push your changes in to a branch in Launchpad and link it here so others can grab a copy and so we can review it.

Best wishes

Alex

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