Have Multiple View "instances" within a single View

[Howard Miller]

This is hard to explain...

At the moment, a view consists of 1-3 columns and that's it. It would be *very* cool to have, say, a single column and then click a button to create a whole new column set beneath that with an independent number of columns. This would provide the student with almost infinite flexibility in the view.

More rambling: for example, a single "view" column-set (need to think of a name for this) at the top and bottom could provide a header and a footer.

[Nigel-catalyst (nigel-catalyst)]

Views can consist of 1 - 5 columns, btw :)

Are you talking about having columns within columns? Or having what is basically 'column sets' (one row of columns) stacked on top of one another?

Either is major development work.

[Howard Miller (howard-miller)]

I was talking about 'column sets' (that's the phrase I was searching for.

However, columns within columns achieves much the same thing. I guess that a "container" could be dragged into a column which itself defines further columns.

Yes, I confidently expect it would be tricky but just think of the flexibility it gives you :-) FWIW, this came up because Pebblepad has this feature.

[Robert Lyon (robertl-9)]

In Mahara version 1.8 it is now possible to do this. There has been major changes around layouts - allowing for flexible layouts.

One now can choose pre-existing flexible layouts or create their own ones. So will mark this as fixed