New subject: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Handling document references in UIs?

31 Mar 2010

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 13:29, Vincent Massol &lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; wrote:
...

 On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

  On 03/31/2010 11:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:

 On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We need a consistent way to handle document references in UIs.
>
> For example, on the rename template, the title is "Renaming<string
serialization of a reference here>".
> Thus if the page is named "?." in the space "Main" for example we
get: "Renaming Main.?\."
> Same for the wysiwyg editor's insert link dialog box (under the title we have the
technical reference printed).
>
> Proposal
> =======
>
> Since references are technical I don't think we should print them in the UI.
>
> Instead we should print its constituents: wiki, space, page (or just space, page when
not in multiwiki or when handling a ref not from the current wiki).
>
> This is what Caty has done in the Search UI BTW. Thus I propose to reuse her idea and
print this:
>
> wiki>>  space>>  page
>
> where>>  is the HTML&#197; symbol.
>
> You can check visually what I mean here:
>
http://playground.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch?text=test&x…
>
> Thus applying this to the example above, we would have:
>
> "Renaming Main>>  ?."
>
> And thus this removes the technical aspects:
> * no ":" or "." to separate wiki and space
> *no character escaping
>
> WDYT? Any other idea to achieve the same result ? 
 +1.

 Maybe / would be good as a separator. It's respecting the directory/file
 separator, it's also used in the URLs. it's familiar. 
 "/" would be ok too but provided it's displayed in a different color and
appropriate spacing between reference parts and "/". I have the feeling
&#197; provides less ambiguity since it cannot appear easily in a document name while
"/" is common. 
I think i would also prefer an arrow or any other shape more UI
oriented than "/".

...

 Thanks
 -Vincent

   Another
idea:
 have a rectangle box drawn with 3 internal boxes, each for a reference part (wiki, space,
page). 
 I don't like this. Boxes are visual only, and borders aren't really good
 at being suggestive.

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