Blog Post Slots - combine typeahead blog slot with recent posts

[rickybanister]

User clicks on 'Blog Post' slot. The slot is added and the 'Choose Slot' form is engaged by default. A user is asked to start typing a post title. By default the five most recent blog post titles are listed before type-ahead starts suggesting titles.

If searching by title is inadequate, the user can click the 'browse all posts' button. They are directed to the blog index and can use the filters to narrow their search. There is also a cancel button if they are editing, but wish to keep their current selection.

[rickybanister]

sketch of single blog post slot

[dordille]

John, assigning to you for styling.

[johnnyoffline]

Jake might be able to help with styling this

[rickybanister]

We've decided to combine both blog posts slots together. The 'Recent Posts' form should be one tab and the 'Search Posts' should be the second tab. Clicking the 'Search Posts' tab would reveal the above type-ahead search field. A user would search for a post, type-ahead would suggest titles, the user would click the suggestion and add it to the queue (similar to adding tags, only the would be listed vertically rather than inline). The post titles would have the (x) icon next to them to remove them. They click save to save their selections and the selected posts would be displayed.

Users CANNOT select from recent posts AND search posts. They must make a decision on how to find posts first. If they've selected recent posts and then click on the 'Search Posts' tab it's going to need to tell the User it will wipe out their previous selection.