On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Mahomed Hussein <Mahomed(a)custodiandc.com>
wrote:
I was just mocking up some samples of my
recommendation (which I think
possibly lines up with Vincent's points 2 and 3), when I realised that
there already exists the UI to edit the Page URL. It's just not called that
and I didn't remember seeing it. But I see that's probably what Caty was
referring to :-)
I feel like I am just catching up to the conversation :-)
So just to re-cap
1) You can currently edit the location, but this is only for advanced
users. (Maybe this can be a Wiki-wide setting instead of being tied to
advanced users, even if it can only be set in the config file - screenshot
https://snag.gy/vS4f3j.jpg). Personally I don't see why this needs to be
an advanced user only feature, because if a user can create a page and
decide what its parent page is, why can't they decide on the URL name? A
wiki-wide setting will allow the Admin to make this decision on an all or
nothing basis (rather than just the "nothing" option we have now).
2) The word "Name" and the description "Name of the new page" are not
very
clear. (I have made a recommendation in this screenshot -
https://snag.gy/dlUK96.jpg)
3) I love the speakingurl suggestion and I hope you do implement it. I
think it will give the best of both worlds. It will generate nicer URLs. I
also agree with Vincent, many of the users *do* care about the URL. For
example, we share URLs in emails and chat etc. and cross reference in
documentation. This is one of the many uses where a nice URL is actually
useful.
Slightly off-topic, it's nice to see you (the XWiki devs) actually taking
this seriously and discussing it here. It's very refreshing. So just wanted
to say thanks for that.
Off-topic: I'm quite thrilled with the number or replies and opinions on
this thread. Maybe we should send / discuss more topics on the users list
(we usually discuss the UI proposals/changes on the devs list).
Thanks,
Caty
Kind regards,
Mahomed Hussein
Custodian Data Centre
Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com
http://www.CustodianDC.com
-----Original Message-----
From: users [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Massol
Sent: 21 April 2017 16:56
To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org>
Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] display page title and name(url) while creating
a page
Hi again,
On 21 Apr 2017, at 17:33, Miroslav Galajda
<miroslav.galajda(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
this seems to be quite complicated and not complete.
This url-friendly problem does arise not only in page creation process
but also in page renaming.
The other thing is that custom applications that are creating pages
would require to use different approax and will need to be customized
separately.
The UIXP doesn't seems to solve the problem
globally and I think
currently this is not the main/core part of the problem.
I would like if this was built-in and deeply integrated into xwiki and
not to have it "only" optional. This is probably hard to quickly find
the solution right now.
As I said, the best solution would be built-in support such that it
will transparently replace user-entered page name with URL-friendly name.
Yes there are 2 aspects. The built-in part is easy by doing 1) and having
a default implementation that doesn’t do any transformation. Then an
extension can contribute a new component overriding the default one to use
a different algorithm.
And this new API can be used in different places of XWiki (Create page,
rename page, AWM-generated entries, etc).
That’s mostly what I meant by 1) below.
But for me this is not enough we also need to show the generated URL in
the create page UI for example and that’s 2).
Right now we don’t have an agreement from all xwiki devs that they’re ok
to go with showing the generated URL hence the UIXP idea.
If everyone agrees then the problem goes away and it can be built in the
default UIs. There’s still the question of allowing the user to edit the
last part of the URL but let’s consider it as a detail FTM.
The proposed first point, to have component and a
script service for
converting strings to url-friendly strings, is the must have. This is
what I strongly agree about.
And it should provide some configuration in xwiki and it should take
into account the language in which the page is being created. The
speakingurl, aforementioned solution, works with language and provides
quite a lot of customization.
Yep.
Then this script service could be directly used
in createinline.vm and
other .vm files. Don't know about generally solving url-friendly thing
in the custom applications.
Thanks
-Vincent
Best regards
Miroslav Galajda
On 21 April 2017 at 16:45, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
>
>> On 21 Apr 2017, at 16:19, Miroslav Galajda
>> <miroslav.galajda(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, the slugify is different component than speakingurl, but
>> currently it doesn't matter on this.
>>
>> Ok, how would we solve this globally? Not only in default page
>> creation process but also in custom applications, that create pages in
their own.
>> For example the FAQ uses this code to
redirect to new FAQ page after
>> entering question name:
>> #set ($newFAQReference = $services.model.createDocumentReference('',
>> '',
>> "$question"))
>> $response.sendRedirect($xwiki.getURL($newFAQReference, 'inline',
>> "$!{request.queryString}&title=${escapetool.url($question)}"))
>>
>> The solution you propose will be transparent for this code or will
>> it require som modifications?
>
> My proposal is to do 2 things:
>
> 1) Introduce some new Component in XWiki Platform. I don’t know
> where. It could be inside some existing modules in
>
https://github.com/xwiki/
> xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core or introduce a new one
in
there.
>
> So a Component + a Script Service so that it can be accessed from
> wiki pages inside scripts (velocity, groovy, etc).
>
> This should cater for the need to be able to use it from anywhere.
>
> It’s basically a clean up/transformation of String into something
> human-readable.
>
> 2) Introduce a UIXP inside createinline.vm to allow extenders to
> contribute some sections in the Create UI. Actually the current
“Location”
> section could even be refactored to be
implemented using a UIX for
> this UIXP. Several UIX could be contributed with an order and they’d
> appear in the defined order.
>
> For more on UIXP, see
http://extensions.xwiki.org/
> xwiki/bin/view/Extension/UIExtension%20Module and to see existing
> ones see
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ExtensionPoint/
>
> 3) You could then implement an optional UIX to introduce a new URL
> section that would use 1) to display what URL would be used for
> example. It could also let the user modify the last part of the URL.
>
> What I haven’t thought about yet is how this UIX will pass back the
> document name to createinline.vm. Maybe these UIX would be allowed to
> modify variables in the Velocity/Script context and that would be
enough.
>
> It probably needs to be brainstormed a bit more but this is the idea
> I have so far. I’d also like to have @Caty’s POV on the UI
> aspect/Layout of such a UIXP concept.
>
> WDYT Miroslav?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>>
>> On 21 April 2017 at 16:00, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> On 21 Apr 2017, at 15:36, Miroslav Galajda
>>>> <miroslav.galajda(a)gmail.com
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> the solution I've described is javascript based and runs on
> client-side.
>>>> From what I know, the component-based solution, which you propose,
> would
>>>> require to have url-friendly conversion component usable in java
>>>> and
> not
>>> as
>>>> javascript code. Am I right?
>>>
>>> Yes you’re right but:
>>>
>>> 1) There’s also a Java API, see
https://github.com/slugify/slugify
>>> 2) If we also offer a UIX then it can be implemented in a wiki page
>>> for example and you can use JS.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> -Vincent
>>>
>>>> On 21 April 2017 at 15:28, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Miroslav,
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 21 Apr 2017, at 15:05, Miroslav Galajda <
> miroslav.galajda(a)gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, let me enter into this conversion.
>>>>>> Some time ago I've asked for help how to solve problem with
> diacritics
>>>>> (or
>>>>>> accents) in page names when creating new pages so that the have
>>>>>> url-friendly names. You can search for "strip accents from
page
>>>>>> name
>>> used
>>>>>> in url" in xwiki users mailing list. I've got no hint
or
>>>>>> solution
> from
>>>>>> xwiki community till today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've come with solution that ensures for simple users,
creating
>>>>>> url-friendly names without requiring them to think about the
>>>>>> concept
> of
>>>>> the
>>>>>> page name or page title. They simple enter the desired human
>>>>>> readably
>>>>> page
>>>>>> name, and in the code behind of the page creation, I have made
>>>>>> some modifications in createinline.vm to hook into page creation
process.
>>> The
>>>>>> modifications are mainly javascript based, where I've attache
to
> submit
>>>>>> event of the "form#create", where I replace the entered
"title"
>>>>>> with
>>> the
>>>>>> one for url-friendly. And for url-friendly name I've used
this
>>> javascript
>>>>>> based solution on
https://pid.github.io/speakingurl/.
>>>>>> I've integrated this principle also into page creation
process
>>>>>> of FAQ
>>> and
>>>>>> Blog applications, which we are using in our xwiki installation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would be nice if you could integrate this principle into
>>>>>> xwiki so
>>> that
>>>>>> everyone can have nice url-friendly urls without worring about
>>>>>> it. It
>>> is
>>>>>> also suitable for english speaking users. You don't have to
>>>>>> worry
> about
>>>>>> entering spaces or other non-url allowed characters, which make
>>>>>> url
>>> look
>>>>>> ugly.
>>>>>
>>>>> That looks very nice!
>>>>>
>>>>> One way forward I could think about:
>>>>> * We provide some Create script service to return a URL-friendly
> string.
>>>>> We introduce a component role for this. We refactor
>>>>> createinline.vm to
>>> use
>>>>> it and to display the URL.
>>>>> * You could then contribute your code as an extension that we
>>>>> make available on
extensions.xwiki.org for users to install
>>>>> * We decide later on if we want to bundle it by default
>>>>>
>>>>> If we don’t agree about displaying the URL by default all the
>>>>> time
> then
>>> an
>>>>> option is to introduce a UIX in createinline.vm for that. And
>>>>> this
>>> could be
>>>>> implemented in your extension too for example or by default in
>>>>> XWiki (possibly with an Admin setting).
>>>>>
>>>>> WDYT?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Miroslav Galajda
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 21 April 2017 at 14:02, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net>
> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 21 Apr 2017, at 13:52, Marius Dumitru Florea <
>>>>>>> mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Vincent Massol <
> vincent(a)massol.net>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Caty,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 21 Apr 2017, at 12:44, Ecaterina Moraru
(Valica) <
>>>>> valicac(a)gmail.com
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Let's see what variants we have:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 1. Instead of displaying "Title",
display the "Name" instead.
>>>>>>>>>> This won't solve anything. There is no
difference between
>>>>>>>>>> Page
> Name
>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>> Page Title for the normal users. Seeing
"Name" instead of
> "Title",
>>>>> will
>>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>>>> stop the users to enter spaces if they want, so
the URL will
> still
>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>>> those spaces. We don't force the Page Names
to trim spaces.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> One quick solution here is indeed to use
"URL" label instead
>>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>> "Name".
>>>>>>>>> For
>>>>>>>>>> the reasons Vincent mentioned this might not end
up in the
> product
>>>>> for
>>>>>>>>> now,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What did I mention? :) What’s preventing us from
having it in
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> product
>>>>>>>>> rather soon than later (except workload ofc)?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> so you will need to do some custom development
(changing
>>>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>>> translations)
>>>>>>>>>> to have this change. If you want to be
"hackish" you can
>>>>>>>>>> even
>>> change
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> translation for "Title" to
"URL" instead and hope that your
>>>>>>>>>> users
>>>>> will
>>>>>>>>>> enter shorter URLs (since we generate the name
from the title).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Displaying just Name / URL, means users will
still have to
>>>>>>>>>> go and
>>>>>>> change
>>>>>>>>>> the title manually.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This could be better (with URL name) since when you
create a
>>>>>>>>> page
>>>>> you’re
>>>>>>>>> offered the ability to change the title after you
click Create.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The only way to cut a step in the flow is to
autogenerate
>>>>>>>>>> the page names (which we currently do). But for
your
>>> use
>>>>>>>>> case
>>>>>>>>>> you shoyld write a shorting/trimming algorithm,
but this is
> custom,
>>>>>>> since
>>>>>>>>>> you mentioned you want just the initials and no
spaces, etc.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 2. Displaying both "Title" and
"Name". This will create
>>>>>>>>>> confusion
>>> and
>>>>>>>>> need
>>>>>>>>>> for explanations.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is not exactly what is suggested either by
Vishal nor by
>>>>>>>>> me
> :)
>>>>> What
>>>>>>>>> we suggested is to let the user enter the URL name
and title.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Actually and to be more precise what I was suggesting
was to
>>> continue
>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> let the user enter the title but to show the
generated URL as
>>>>>>>>> it’s
>>>>> done
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>> AWM. And, importantly to allow the user to change the
last
>>>>>>>>> part of
>>> the
>>>>>>> URL
>>>>>>>>> (it would change the page name).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That's why we display these options just for
advanced and
>>>>>>>>>> long-time users of XWiki, since they are used to
the concepts.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yes but URLs don't need an advanced user to
understand the
>>>>>>>>> concept
>>>>> and I
>>>>>>>>> agree with Vishal that we’re now causing a very large
number
>>>>>>>>> of
>>> pages
>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> have %25 in their URLs by default which is quite bad…
Of
>>>>>>>>> course
>>>>> someone
>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>>>> spend their time monitoring what users are doing and
renaming
> pages
>>>>>>>>> thereafter or educate their users to do that but
we’re not
>>>>>>>>> helping
>>> and
>>>>>>>>> we’re making it difficult.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If your web site is not in English then you're forced
to use
> special
>>>>>>>> characters like diacritics which makes it hard to avoid
URL
>>>>>>>> encoded characters (the browser location bar displays the
URL
>>>>>>>> nicely but if
>>> you
>>>>>>>> copy the URL the result is not nice).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Agreed. So I’d say it’s even more important to allow the
user
>>>>>>> to be
>>> able
>>>>>>> to easily view and change the resulting URL when they’re not
in
>>> English.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -----
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> IMO what you are describing is advanced user
behavior.
>>>>>>>>>> Normal
> users
>>>>>>> don't
>>>>>>>>>> generally care about their URLs and SEO.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I don’t fully agree with you. I have the feeling
(can’t prove
>>>>>>>>> it)
>>>>> that a
>>>>>>>>> good number of our users care about the generated
URLs.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Also I think that simple users may care about URL
without
>>>>>>>>> being
>>>>> advanced
>>>>>>>>> users. Making them advanced users will expose them to
a lot
>>>>>>>>> more
>>>>>>> complexity
>>>>>>>>> than they need to know.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> But the beauty of XWiki is that you can customize
it locally
>>>>>>>>>> to perfectly match your needs.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That’s not exactly true (and it’s far from being
easy, just
>>>>>>>>> check
>>>>>>>>> createinline.vm): It means overriding large portions
of vm
>>>>>>>>> code
> and
>>>>>>> having
>>>>>>>>> to do manual merges whenever you upgrade. A major
PITA.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Vincent mentioned something about AWM. I
don't see much
> difference
>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> Create Page. We generate the names from title
here too. We
> display
>>>>> them
>>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>>> the breadcrumb, but in a more simple way.
Displaying the
>>>>>>>>> "localhost"/server
>>>>>>>>>> part is not simple user behavior. AWM is more
complex.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> -----
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So I would not change anything on the product
side, since I
> believe
>>>>>>> these
>>>>>>>>>> should be solved as custom changes for your
instance.
>>>>>>>>>> We want to encourage users to use page titles
(with spaces
>>>>>>>>>> in
> them
>>>>>>> since
>>>>>>>>>> they are more readable and supported), while we
are
>>>>>>>>>> preserving
> the
>>>>> page
>>>>>>>>>> name behavior for advances users (but we
don't enforce it).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I don’t agree with this sentence: We definitely don’t
want to
>>>>> encourage
>>>>>>>>> users to use titles in URLs.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If users made
>>>>>>>>>> mistakes they can always change the title or
rename the page.
>>>>>>>>>> On the product side the only change I would like
us to do is
> using
>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> URL
>>>>>>>>>> naming, but this was debated in the past and
dropped for
> Vincent's
>>>>>>>>> reasons.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What reasons, I don’t remember a discussion about
using URL
>>>>>>>>> name
>>>>> instead
>>>>>>>>> of page name?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So our main disagreement is that I consider that
favouring
>>>>>>>>> encoded characters in URLs is not a good thing while
you
>>>>>>>>> think it’s not a
>>>>> large
>>>>>>>>> enough problem to do something about it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Would it make our UI too complex to use for simple
users if
>>>>>>>>> we
> were
>>>>>>>>> showing a URL and the ability to change the last part
of it?
>>>>>>>>> IMO
>>>>> what’s
>>>>>>>>> complex is when we have Page name and Page Title. But
I don’t
>>>>>>>>> feel
>>>>>>> there’d
>>>>>>>>> be confusion between URL and Page title.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What do others think?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Caty
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:57 PM, Vincent Massol
<
>>> vincent(a)massol.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 20 Apr 2017, at 22:51, Vincent Massol
>>>>>>>>>>>> <vincent(a)massol.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Vishal,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ok, I misunderstood you in your first
email. I understood
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> opposite.
>>>>>>>>>>> I thought you were complaining that have 2
notions (page
>>>>>>>>>>> name +
>>> page
>>>>>>>>> title)
>>>>>>>>>>> was confusing but it’s actually the opposite!
What you find
>>>>> confusing
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>>>> the fact that it’s not easy for your users to
set both the
>>>>>>>>>>> page
>>> name
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>>> page titles!
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It’s funny (or not :)) since this is
exactly what we had
>>>>>>>>>>>> in
> past
>>>>>>>>>>> versions of XWiki and we had several
complaints that it was
>>>>> confusing
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>> have the 2 notions and this is why he hid the
page name
>>>>>>>>>>> only for
>>>>>>>>> advanced
>>>>>>>>>>> users.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Actually, if I remember well, what we were
doing was to ask
>>>>>>>>>>> for
>>> the
>>>>>>> page
>>>>>>>>>>> name and we were setting the title to the
same as the page
>>>>>>>>>>> name
> by
>>>>>>>>> default
>>>>>>>>>>> and then the user could edit the title before
saving the page.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> We’ve now done the opposite (user deciding on
the title and
>>>>>>>>>>> page
>>>>> name
>>>>>>>>>>> being derived from it) but leading to the
issue you’re
>>>>>>>>>>> raising
>>> about
>>>>>>> URL
>>>>>>>>>>> SEO…
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> See below.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 20 Apr 2017, at 14:20, Vishal
>>>>>>>>>>>>> <thewikinoteorg(a)gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks Vincent for your thorough
reply..
>>>>>>>>>>>>> You guessed it right. We intend to
have clean and short
>>>>>>>>>>>>> urls
> for
>>>>> SEO
>>>>>>>>>>>>> reasons.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Current scheme creates two problems:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1) The Page name is fetched
automatically from the Title.
> Often
>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> titles
>>>>>>>>>>>>> have spaces which translate as
*percent characters *in
>>>>>>>>>>>>> url
> which
>>>>>>> makes
>>>>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>>>>>>> somewhat unclean :)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Indeed you’re right. By hiding the page
name we’re now
> incitating
>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>> have longer URLs and encoded characters
showing up in URLs
>>>>>>>>>>> which
>>> is
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>>>>> nice I agree.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe one solution is to do something
similar to what we
>>>>>>>>>>>> do in
>>> AWM,
>>>>>>>>> i.e.
>>>>>>>>>>> generate automatically the URL from the title
entered by
>>>>>>>>>>> the
> user
>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> show
>>>>>>>>>>> the resulting URL to the user and give the
user the
>>>>>>>>>>> opportunity
> to
>>>>>>>>> change
>>>>>>>>>>> the URL.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> See
>>>>>>>>>>>>
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Extension/
>>>>>>>>>>>
App%20Within%20Minutes%20Application/AppWithinMinutes-Step1
>>>>>>>>>>> .png
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2) Secondly, to have the shorter url,
we use only the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> short
>>> forms
>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> complete title.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ex. For title 'Pune
University' we use name PU.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey, you’re from Pune? :) I’ve been there
about 15 times!
>>>>>>>>>>>> That
>>> was
>>>>>>> in a
>>>>>>>>>>> previous job where my company and KPIT
Cummins were partners.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Otherwise in this hierarchy of pages,
the url would be
>>>>>>>>>>>>> much
>>>>> longer.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ex. We have page 'Electronics and
Telecommunications'
>>>>>>>>>>>>> branch
>>> under
>>>>>>>>> page
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 'Pune University'. We should
not have such a long url.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Instead
>>>>> here
>>>>>>> we
>>>>>>>>>>> need
>>>>>>>>>>>>> PU/ENTC or Pune-University/ENTC
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> To avoid all this, what we currently
do:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1) On create page dialog, use PU as
title.. This will
>>>>>>>>>>>>> create
> url
>>>>> as
>>>>>>>>> PU.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> If full name is used here as title,
we need to use -
>>>>>>>>>>>>> instead
> of
>>>>>>> spaces
>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> avoid percent characters in url.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2) While in edit mode, change the
title back to Pune
> University.
>>>>>>>>> Remove
>>>>>>>>>>> any
>>>>>>>>>>>>> - characters to make title clean.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is where confusion creeps in.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> If these two terms create confusion,
why I need to show
>>>>>>>>>>>>> them
>>> both:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I guess the *confusion is due to term
Name*. It doesn't
> reflect
>>>>>>> actual
>>>>>>>>>>> usage
>>>>>>>>>>>>> of the term. URL or weblink or link
or web address would
>>>>>>>>>>>>> be
> more
>>>>> apt
>>>>>>>>>>> terms
>>>>>>>>>>>>> to use to instead of Name.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Regarding Page name vs Page URL.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> A bit of history: The reason we used page
name and not
>>>>>>>>>>>> page URL
>>>>>>>>>>> originally is because what the user is
creating is a
>>>>>>>>>>> document in
>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> database and initially it was called Document
Name. Since
>>>>>>>>>>> that
>>> was a
>>>>>>> bit
>>>>>>>>>>> confusing for users, we had decided to call
it Page Name.
>>>>>>>>>>> It
> just
>>>>>>>>> happened
>>>>>>>>>>> that the URL used was directly derived from
the
>>>>>>>>>>> document/page
>>> name.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> In practice the 3 concepts could have
different values:
>>>>>>>>>>>> * a value for the document’s name in the
DB
>>>>>>>>>>>> * another value for the document’s title
>>>>>>>>>>>> * yet another value used in the URL.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> We’ve had discussions so that we could
let the user
>>>>>>>>>>>> provide
>>> shorter
>>>>>>>>> URLs
>>>>>>>>>>> for pages in the future.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Now for the time being and since we don’t
have this ATM, I
> think
>>> I
>>>>>>>>> agree
>>>>>>>>>>> with you that we could decide to display to
the user the
>>>>>>>>>>> URL
> that
>>>>> will
>>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>>>>> generated (the encoded URL) and allow the
user to change it.
>>>>>>> Internally
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> user would change the document name.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> My users can differentiate between
Title and URL. But the
> whole
>>>>>>>>>>> procedure we
>>>>>>>>>>>>> follow is certainly not
understandable by all. And we
> definitely
>>>>>>> need
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> follow this whole long procedure,
just to have short and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> clean
>>>>> urls.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, if you’re asking your users to care
about the URLs
>>>>>>>>>>>> that
> get
>>>>>>>>>>> generated, right now they need to be advanced
users to be
>>>>>>>>>>> able
> to
>>>>> edit
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> page name in the Create Page UI (since
changing the title
>>> afterwards
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>> too
>>>>>>>>>>> cumbersome).
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, by showing both fields at the
first place itself, I
>>>>>>>>>>>>> would
>>> like
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> shorten the procedure and url
length.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I’m in agreement with you. Let’s see what
others think.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for this interesting discussion!
>>>>>>>>>>>> -Vincent
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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