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 < [email protected]> 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,
-- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project