24 Apr
2012
24 Apr
'12
11:41 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:23 AM, jerem <jeremie.bousquet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi devs,
I didn't see this thread already ...
I recently had to massively implement this kind of things (auto-generate
page name at page creation) for the mail archive app.
I'd like to share my thoughts, if of any help or interest for you :
- this kind of use-case is usually linked to page/object creation (for an
application) and not pure wiki page creation. Usually when you want to
generate page name, it's because it's a use-case of object/page
instanciation for a custom app. In this case you generally won't leave the
page naming responsibility to the end-user, but prefer generating it to have
something coherent, and to simplify the creation process.
Yes, that's exactly why I've focused on page-object creation in the
extension I've developed.
- maybe what would be "cool" would be to propose an alternate way of
creating wiki pages for this specific use-case. The idea would be to propose
an easy way for an app to propose an inline edit sheet for a particular wiki
Class. When user clicks on "create" button a pop-up (modal box) is open on
this inline edit sheet. As most of the time what you expect is the user
entering values in html form fields, you don't really care about providing
"save&continue" nor "preview" possibilities. In this case, you
would only
provide buttons "Create" and "Cancel" and that's fairly enough
IMO.
Yes, the modal popup is exactly my vision. It does not show on the
screenshots I've provided, because I haven't added the small JS magic
to implement it yet (I've first implemented the fallback when
JavaScript is not available) - but that's my plan. The idea is to be
able to create a new structured page without a page load.
Jerome
- Of course the "modal" pop-up is not mandatory in any way and may seem
off-topic, but it's a way to focus on what is expected for the user, and to
avoid him noticing what maybe strange things can happen in the browser url.
It's also a nice way to get back to opening page fastly.
- with this hypothesis you propose something more suitable than fill page
name / click create / fill fields / click "save" or
"save&continue" while
removing the specific issues of "save&continue" and "preview"
WDYT ?
BR,
Jeremie
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