Great module!

I'm just starting to make nodequeue's accessible to non-techy site admins. They like it. It would be awesome to be able to create, on a per nodequeue basis, help-text to help those admins properly order the nodes in the queue.

For example, I've created a view using the "grid" style and I've selected "horizontal" for display order. The node-order is being handled by nodequeue. I want to be able to explain to the admin's how the grid scheme works on the same page that they are ordering the nodes (admin/content/nodequeue//view). I imagine the field for adding that description would be at admin/content/nodequeue//edit.

My workaround in the meantime is to create a block with those instructions and set its visibility settings to show up only on the nodequeue view url.

I'm sure there are other use-cases for needing some custom help-text per nodequeue.

Again, thanks for the great module.

Shai

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ezra-g commented
Title: Custom Help-text at the top of a nodequeue » Queue Description

This seems like a fair feature request. It seems equivalent to the description field on a content type, and it could probably come with a "show on subqueue manipulation form?" kind of option.

I would be happy to review a patch for this feature. A quick semi hackish way to accomplish this would be to see where the nodequeue dragdrop form is generated and either theme or form_alter in the description text.

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deanloh commented
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I'm using Nodequeue to control what shows up on homepage and I love what it can do.

Only thing in my wishlist now is to have a description field added, by making it a textarea field, I can insert graphics to describe the position where the nodes are displayed. As illustrated in the attached image file.

Caption: image shown is the view in a typical node/xx/nodequeue

If I wish to overwrite the theme to add the field, can someone advise where do I start and if possible, include the sample code here. Thanks in advance!