2 May
2011
2 May
'11
4:21 p.m.
Hi,
Having page name and page title is VERY disturbing for end users. We should
in one way or another merge (not make accessible for end user) page name and
page title.
IMO this is a major usability concern. I logged a jira for the purpose:
XE-907
see below.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Hi devs,
This is a thread to discuss what kind of title behavior we want in the
future. I've listed some topics I consider open below. Could you give me
your opinion about them?
1) Should we force titles to be mandatory by default
For content pages, it does not make sense to have a page without a title (it
is like someone with no name!). And since we don't have page type feature I
guess the answer is "title should be mandatory" for all type of pages.
2) Should we merge page names and titles in the UI (ie only expose titles
and compute page names based on it)
This is needed. If we don't want that for all users we could enable page
name and page title separation based on user type.
3) Do we want titles to be generated from content if the title is empty or
not. If 1) is agreed then there'll always be a title set so this is probably
not needed
If we choose 1) then I would say that page title should be input by user and
not generated.
4) Should we allow wiki syntax in the title field and make that field a
textarea rather than a single line string (to allow scripts to generate
titles, this is useful for applications for example). Note that currently
the title field can only contain velocity and no wiki syntax AFAIK.
As you say, we are already able to type velocity syntax in page titles which
is enough IMO. Unless there is use case to illustrate wiki syntax in page
title, I am not sure we should work on that.
Any other topic to discuss related to titles?
Just like Denis mentions, space pretty name is closely related to this
topic.
Application Within Minutes also has some topics with page names.
Thanks
-Vincent
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