Re: [xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Improving easiness of creating wiki links

Ideally I like C and E.

Thanks, Caty On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:56 PM, vincent(a)massol.net wrote: > Hi devs, > > A user has reported the following, mentioning it was taking a lot of > steps, and we’ve all experimented that creating wiki links could be

> > “ > 1. Go to page you want to link to (Target Page). > a. Copy URL > 2. Go to page where you want to add the link (Source Page) > 3. Edit it using Wiki Syntax Editor > 4. Create the link > i. Write [[ > ii. write label > iii. write >> > iv. paste the link pointing to Target Page > v. Remove https://w.amazon.com/bin/view from pasted link > vi. Replace manually all encoded URL strings (like + and other > symbols) > vii. Replace “/” with “.” > viii. Add WebHome > ix. write ]] > 5. Save > 6. Done. > " > > So I’d like to brainstorm about what we could do to make it easier to > creating wiki links. > > Some ideas: > > A) Remove step 4. ix with http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12920 > > B) The label>> parts (steps ii and iii) can be omitted, especially when > the link label generation is configured to use titles > > C) The real solution for me is autocomplete on links: > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-206 This should probably be > implemented in the autocomplete extension: see >

> and >

> > D) Using CTRL+G helps since it provides the reference and helps in

> the page to link to. It can be considered as a simplified

> a simplified impl for C). > > E) Marius mentioned elsewhere: "I would also like to have a common

> Link dialog between the CKEditor and the Wiki Editor. You click on a

> on the tool bar, you get a dialog where you can search for the target

> (or select it from the tree) and then click Insert, which will

> wiki syntax for your. The Insert Link dialog can have a shortcut key

> quick access. Of course autocomplete is nicer but it's more work,

> Insert Link dialog is a must for the CKEditor anyway.” > > F) Marius mentioned elsewhere: "We can also implement a dedicated

> Reference" dialog for the Wiki Editor that offers a text input where

> can paste an URL and the dialog attempts to extract the entity

> from the URL and inserts it in the Wiki Editor text area to be used for > links but also for macros or anywhere where you might need a document > reference. This can be implemented as an XWiki extension.” > > G) Add the ability to paste a full URL in the reference part of wiki

> and upon save the Rendering will automatically transform it into a

> reference if it’s a local link. And if you want a real url for a local

> then you’d need to use the “url:” prefix. Implementation: One

> simple solution is to parse the URL (using a > ResourceTypeResolver/ResourceReferenceResolver) and then serialize it

> verify if the result matches the passed URL. If it does it means it’s a > local URL. > > H) Caty mentioned elsewhere: "We could display the reference of a page

> a. a Permalink dialog (containing the URL + reference) that the user

> copy paste in browser input or editor > b. Information tab > c. other?” > > > IMO the best (possibly not the easiest) are C) and G). With those 2 we > would get: > * easy pasting of existing URLs > * easily finding the page you want to link to when you don’t have its

> > Now, even if we agree to do C) and G) in the future I still think that

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