On Nov 25, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Anca Paula Luca wrote:
Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
In a previous thread we've discussed about how to add a link in the WYSIWYG editor, and more generally, how to browse the wiki from a WYSIWYG dialog box (See http://markmail.org/message/tyxrcr24w3n6m2pn for more details).
After some thinking and a discussion with Laurent Lunati, I'd like to suggest a 3rd way of browsing the wiki from the WYSIWYG: an enhanced tree menu.
I've put the mockups and Pros/Cons on this wiki page : http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/NewWysiwygEditorWikiExplorer This wiki explorer widget would be used in the link dialogs, image dialogs, file (attachment) dialogs.
Here's my +1 for 3) A). +1 for 3) with filter option.
+1 for 3A), despite the fact that user needs to scroll through all the pages to add his new one.There are 2 usecases for adding a new page: * the user hasn't found the page he's looking for -- in which case he'd need to see the whole list anyway (maybe with a search filter) * the user knows that the page does not exist and wants to put a link to it -- in which case I think he knows what he's doing and he'd use the "advanced input" anyway.
I find the add option _at the end_ (A) more natural than _at the beginning_ (B, C), because you're supposed to add new things when you've explored all other possibilities and none suited your needs.
So to follow your strategy, if I want to add a page in the XWiki space, I'll have either to scroll by thousands of documents or enter some characters in the filter so that I know it won't return lots of matches so that I can then see the add page link... hmm... doesn't sound right to me. What am I missing (I'm asking since everyone seems to agree with A). Thanks -Vincent
Happy coding, Anca Luca
From the implementation POV 3) is probably the most difficult proposal and 1) the simplest one. Widget 3) would need to be a reusable (and highly configurable) GWT component so that we could use it as our main navigation/reorganization tool in the future. This tree would replace our current treeview (Main.AllDocs) which is AFAIR the only page using the YUI library in XE.
Thanks, JV.