The reorderer component allows user to organize page elements via drag and drop with a mouse and ctrl + arrow keys on the keyboard. It has been implemented in the context of the Image Gallery as the Lightbox component. We can think of the reorder as a level up in abstraction from the lightbox.
This functionality could be useful, usable and efficient in many places across the Sakai application. These following are some ideas for integration points:
- Tool Order functionality (currently in Site Info) - we could even look at allowing users to reorganize the actual navigation itself so they are getting immediate and direct feedback about what they are doing.
- Tab Reodering - allow users to reorder their tabs directly. This could be used with the current tab customization functionality and/or used to directly organize sites and tabs.
- Resources - file organization within folders and between folders.
- Image reodering between collections - lightbox allows for rerodering within a collection now. Next phase of Image Gallery will allow images to be moved in and out of collections also. UC Berkeley will likely implement this unless it's done as part of this activity.
- Page orderer - where pages includes multiple tools (home for instance), allow users to dynamically and directly order the tools on the page.
- Wiki - Thoughts about where the reorder could be used here?
- Syllabus Tool - Allow users to reorder sections / components of their syllabus.