Identify landing pages that look paltry when empty, design alternative content [#1812574]

Another problem with #1812566: Ship Commons with (optional, but default to on) demo content is that the default empty text is just nothing. The same is true of other views like /events and /groups.

In Drupal core, there's an established empty text UI pattern of "There are no [things] available." and then if you have permission to create those things, "Add [a thing]".

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Comment #1

ezra-g CreditAttribution: ezra-g commented 10 November 2012 at 16:59

Priority:

Normal

» Major

The reason I avoided empty text in a lot of these views is so that they'll simply disappear when they're empty, instead of taking up space on the page to say "Yep, this space is blank" and to avoid giving the impression of an inactive community.

However, this definitely makes some landing pages look...paltry when there's not a lot of content.

Comment #2

blacklabel_tom CreditAttribution: blacklabel_tom commented 1 February 2013 at 11:05

There is another solution for this being discussed here: http://drupal.org/node/1868936

Cheers

Tom

Comment #3

ezra-g CreditAttribution: ezra-g commented 11 February 2013 at 20:14

Title:	Use standard empty text for listing pages	» Identify landing pages that look paltry when empty, design alternative content
Category:	bug	» feature
Issue tags:		+Needs design