Ideas for the Future

Just thought I should start a place for ideas. Mostly this is about module ideas. There are modules I'm thinking about modifying and modules I'm thinking about building, and modules I have already built that I'm trying to take to the next level. It all gets a little confusing, and it's hard to know what to attack first, or what approach to take. May overall goal is to achieve as many as possible of the following functionalities:

To Do

My list of things that just need to get done. No research necessary, just grunt work.

• Polish up content types from Page Extras to deploy in ePage or elsewhere.
• Migrate existing PageExtras content to ePage in Drupal Customizations.
• Clean up non-standard coding in ePage documents in preparation for submission to drupal.org

Done

1. Set up book-wide glossary with page-specific override. Actually, I ended up deploying a site-wide option to use single-site vs book-specific vs page specific glossaries. This is going to create some lost data at times, but it was relatively easy to do.
2. Re-deploy ePage side panel to retrieve data from db rather than FlashVars.
3. Implement swfbook sidebar functionality in the Drupal environment. Actually, I have two modules that accomplish this in slightly different ways, Panel Extras and E_Page.
4. Catch Flash-generated data in the drupal database without migrating to AS3 or installing Services. I have an implementation of this I am happy with working in the e_page module. The only caveat is that I can't seem to get ExternalInterface.available working consistently. For now, I'm living without it, but ultimately this is going to have to be solved, one way or the other.
5. Views-enable Gradebook. Kyle did this for me on an older (stable) version of Gradebook. Not clear I'm going to continue to use Gradebook, but if I do, at least I can grab it's grades and combine them with data generated from other sources.
6. Allow users to choose which side panel features to enable
7. Allow users to choose which other content types can contain side-panel content

Enhance existing modules

1. I'd like Webforms to submit via AHAH, or better yet, be submittable via AHAH on a form by form basis. - I've given up on this one for now.
2. Add Webform-like functionality to E_Page? Not sure I really want that yet, but I need SOMETHING that will capture more than just a final score. Maybe just a catch-all data field.
3. Have a jquery implementation of my glossary?
4. Ditto for quiz?

New Stuff

1. Menu with conditional links - to be used to create branching content. Maybe I should look to see what Hylke has done with that.
2. Field type that offers BOTH url and upload field