hel-o wrote:
Hi,
i'd like ad somthing to that proposal. If you plan to intreduce something like "create page" it would be great to have "create page from template" to. I think in fact thats more important than create space.
The problem is that we don't have yet a way to identify which documents are templates, but in the next release we should have a generic mechanism for identifying templates, which would populate the Create menu.
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
The action bar is meant to be contextual to the current page - to hold actions related to the current page. This will be made clearer once we move the action bar closer to the content area. Therefore we should make clear that the create button does stuff related to the current page by:
- renaming "Page" into "Child page" - make sure that the created page has the current one set as its parent - renaming "Page from Office Document" into "Child page from Office Document" - make sure that the created page has the current page as its parent (might require a couple changes to the OOImporter XApplication)
Making the created page a child of the current page has at least 3 benefits:
- it respects the wiki philosophy that pages should always be linked together (no orphan pages) - it is consistent with other action bars action (creating a child page is related to the current page) - it makes it easier to create a tree-like navigation structure (we often do that on wiki pages: create a new page that links towards a set of pages) - we could also introduce a {{childrenpages /}} macro to make the creation of tree stuctures even easier
Taking that in account i think the create page should happen when you klick on a link pointing to a page that does not exist. That would be consequent and make the semantic question "create page" or "create child page obsolet". But i don't know if its possible.
So you click the link, a dialog appears asking:
- create page - create page from template - import from office
and thats it.
Yes, this is a good option too. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/