16 Mar
2017
16 Mar
'17
9:51 a.m.
Hi Vincent,
Am 16.03.2017 um 08:28 schrieb Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net>et>:
No it wasn’t removed. It’s actually the complete opposite: it’s been improved. You now
have the ability to create unlimited depth of hierarchies and with the ability to set
cascading permissions at all levels.
It’s just that we’re now calling this feature Nested Pages and no longer spaces (previous
spaces were only 1 level deep BTW).
And you still have the additional possibility of creating sub-wikis.
Where did you find this info? I’d like to correct it if you found it in the
documentation.
I got it from you on this list IIRC ;-)
I understand the technical similarity of concepts. Yet, from a UI
perspective I would prefer to have the topmost hierachy level
called "spaces" or "projects" or "what-have-you" and a
separate
"spaces" menue to create, select, delete these.
Obviously the navigation panel on the left should show only the
page tree contained in that "space" as long as I'm "in that
space".
I don’t understand what you mean by "multiple
group memberships/board of directors” and why it’s an issue with multi-wiki.
I read that Wiki vs Nested Pages docs - multiple times ;-)
It's the "Ability to easily query data across instances" that multi-wikis
are missing.
I'm repeating myself, sorry - coming from Confluence we have
just one big wiki but with multiple project related containers
Confluence calls "spaces". But you can still search across all
of them you have access to, link from one to another, include
content snippets from one space in a page in another space and more.
I just want to emulate that as closely as possible because that's how
we are used to work.
Using the topmost level of the nested pages hierarchy for spaces
e.g. creates an odd looking navigation panel with just one entry
at the top level for users that are only in one project/group.
It would be more convenient to select the space/project as a separate
operation and have all the second level pages at the top of the navigation
panel.
Thanks for your help - as Stefan pointed out my main mistake probably
was to restrict access to "Main plus children". I can live with the different
UI, if there is really no way to get that "spaces" menue back that you had
in 7.x (?).
Side note: another "concept" thing that I think Confluence gets right and
a lot of others don't - not quite sure about Xwiki, yet - in Confluence
every page has a parent. Except for the space home that is the top
of the hierarchy, of course. In Mediawiki et. al. you can just create a
page named "bazong" in the middle of nowhere and nobody will ever
see it unless they use the search or the list of all pages.
I personally consider it mandatory that *all* content has a *defined place*
in a hierarchy of pages that is accessable through a menue that folds
out and in. But others may think different.
Kind regards
Patrick