On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 14:37 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > hello devs, > > > > I just work on the i18n integration for pelt and crossed again the whys > > for using views. ;-) > > This mail makes for a pretty good piece of documentation. >
:) It explains a wee bit better what I am doing to create the contracts. ;-) > A number of times over the last couple of weeks I have wanted to write a > mail asking you to write some user level documentation for views. You > see, I keep finding a few minutes to play with new stuff and Views is > one of the things I keep starting up and looking at. However, I never > get past looking at it. > > The reason is that I am thoroughly confused by the huge amount of RT's > that have been posted on this subject. It currently seems to me that > views are the solution to eveything. This makes it really difficult for > me to get started. So I was going to ask you to write a simple How-To on > creating a new contract, and then embedding it in my own site. > Yeah I can understand that. Did you see whiteboard/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.viewHelper.xhtml/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml I will extend that with this RT and write a howto. > As I say, I have resisted asking you to do this because I know I have > very little time for views until 0.7 is released, all my none payed for > time is currently spent on the 0.7 release. However, this RT is *almost* > the how to I want to see so perhaps I should be brave enough to ask. > :) > Is there any chance you can move the *user* relevant parts into a How-To > for views? It doesn't matter if it is not complete, just something that > will enable poor old me to get past the confusion of "views does > everything" to views does "this nice simple task like this". > Yeah I will extend as well the part of using basic forrest:views for writing view configs. > Maybe my poor little brain can catch up with you then :-) > I need as well to write some slides for the upcoming workshop about views. How did you do it again within forrest. ;-) > Thanks, > Ross salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
