Can you explain what you would like to see happen? If you completely delete a local copy of a system page, it pulls the system page back in--immediately--which is quite confusing. So a blank page is probably our best alternative. To get rid of the page completely (and revert to the system page) delete the blank page a second time. You should not have to use ftp for anything...
As for the differences between top and other system pages--if you look at the pages folder, you'll see deleting them does exactly the same thing. That is, go to page "top" and notice what happens in the main zone when you delete it. Evidently the skin pulls in the system page for a skin zone if the local page is blank I suspect this is a good thing rather than a bad one though, as it could mess up a skin pretty easily. But we could explore this in more detail if you are convinced it should be changed. Cheers, Dan On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Markus Weimar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I mentioned this is another thread but this deserves its own. > > Create a local copy of a system page, delete it and it will leave an empty > file in the file system that you can only get rid off via FTP or root access. > Users have almost complete control of BoltWire from the web interface. Users > are told that if there is no local copy of a page, BoltWire will use the one > in the system pages folder. But if you click delete, you don't expect to have > a local copy any longer. You rather wonder why your plugins page which you > accidentally messed up and restored just displays an empty page. > > To make things even more inconsistent _some_ pages will not leave an empty > one. Delete top and you get a copy of the system page in your field folder. > > It's also the only circumstance I am aware of that could push someone without > knowledge of FTP or server access into a dead end. This is sad because you > cannot install BoltWire for someone and be sure that everything that can > happen can be solved from via the web interface. > > The "use system page if no local page exists" feature is awesome and I think > we should use it consistently and not at the same time undermine the power of > the web interface. > > Markus > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BoltWire" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
