On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
The second proposal is a temporary hack for hiding documents. The idea is to add a new field in the XWikiDocument class, 'hidden', which will be automatically used in searchDocuments and countDocuments to filter out special documents. This is a workaround until we will be able to tag special documents or spaces, and will allow to create special documents needed for an application inside the main application's space, instead of the generic XWiki space. Such hidden pages won't appear in normal search results, the index page or the navigation panel.
-0 (close to -1) till you explain what is wrong with the solution below :)
This could also be implemented using a special Tag (like: "xwiki:hidden" for example).
I was going to say: "In general I think we need the ability to add generic metadata to a document.". however this already exists: it's called Objects! :) So I think instead of adding more and more fixed metadata we might instead want to use Objects. Either reuse the existing Tag or create a new Visibility class/objects.
What are the cons of using Objects for this feature?
At first sight I'd say that using objects (including current tag feature) would lead to complex queries. -- Jean-Vincent Drean