Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Handling document references in UIs?

On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi, > > We need a consistent way to handle document references in UIs. > > For example, on the rename template, the title is "Renaming<string serialization of a reference here>". > Thus if the page is named "?." in the space "Main" for example we get: "Renaming Main.?\." > Same for the wysiwyg editor's insert link dialog box (under the title we have the technical reference printed). > > Proposal > ======= > > Since references are technical I don't think we should print them in the UI. > > Instead we should print its constituents: wiki, space, page (or just space, page when not in multiwiki or when handling a ref not from the current wiki). > > This is what Caty has done in the Search UI BTW. Thus I propose to reuse her idea and print this: > > wiki>> space>> page > > where>> is the HTML&#197; symbol. > > You can check visually what I mean here: > http://playground.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch?text=test&x… > > Thus applying this to the example above, we would have: > > "Renaming Main>> ?." > > And thus this removes the technical aspects: > * no ":" or "." to separate wiki and space > *no character escaping > > WDYT? Any other idea to achieve the same result ?

Another idea: have a rectangle box drawn with 3 internal boxes, each for a reference part (wiki, space, page).