21 Dec
2016
21 Dec
'16
1:19 p.m.
Hi Guillaume,
I'm not convinced. It's strange to see a Folder template and no File
template. I understand the use case but we have the Dashboard template that
covers some parts of it. It seems to me that your template offers a
dedicated dashboard, so I think it's name should come from that. It's not
clear why a dashboard with the children tree and the activity stream would
be called "Folder".
Thanks,
Marius
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Guillaume Delhumeau <
guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Hello developers. I'm here to propose a new
template in XWiki to help users
creating container-oriented pages.
= Problem =
UC1: Users don't always understand the Nested Pages concept. They are lost
because they know the concept of Folders and Files and they are used to it,
and then we ask them to switch to something new that breaks their habits.
UC2: Users often need a page that will be the container of some others
(think about the typical "Code" space that we have in all applications) and
they'd like to see quickly all children of that container.
= Proposition =
* Introduce a Folder template the user can chose when she creates a page.
* This folder template displays the children of the page
** It could even be a Dashboard with the children pages on the left, and an
Activity Stream on the right.
== Drawback ==
The workflow of creating a page that is a folder instead of directly create
a folder might be confusing.
== Screenshots ==
Screenshot of my proposition are available there:
http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/
FolderTemplate#HScreenshots
Please answers your ideas on this mail thread, not on the wiki.
Thanks,
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Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project