The Goal:

To have a standard set of configurations that will be implemented for every module.  The forms for standard configs will be pulled from scaffold to help keep the views more DRY.

Overview:

We will make the config forms and their YUI tabs a little more automated.  The form views will be built dynamically by pulling in module config files and global config files. To do this we will move the content that will go on each tab into it's own file. The config form generator will pull in the files for global/scaffolded configs and module configs and make one YUI tabbed form out of them. File names will be used as the headers on the tabs. We will also need to modify the current file structure by adding a directory called configs under each controllers view directory.

Global Configs will include:

1. Files (uses files and dropdown for file display)
2. Tags (uses tags)
3. Comments (uses comments)
4. Aggregation
5. RSS (?)

Steps to Implement:

• Modify expController->configure() to harvest the forms and put them together in one YUI tabbed form, ordered alpahbetically.
• Split the standard/scaffaold configs into one file per tab.
• Go back through each module and split any custom configs out into one file per tab.

Other Things to Consider:

While we are doing this, it would be a good time to go back thru existing modules and implement global features such as tags, comments, files and RSS in modules that haven't already made use of these attachble items.

Areas of Exponent Affected By the Change:

expController and ALL existing modules will need to be touched to implement this feature.