On Thursday 22 September 2005 15:51, Michael Wechner wrote:
> Emmanouil Batsis wrote:
> >IMHO Lenya cannot satisfy this out of the box, simply because handling
> > large document sets navigation-wise is application specific.
>
> can you give an example, maybe one which you think Lenya
> cannot handle?


Sorry, perhaps i need to rephrase. I never meant to imply that lenya cannot 
handle such document sets. I merely claim that applications dealing with a 
massive number of docs (that is also expected to grow linearly or even 
exponentially through time) usually render their navigation based on 
application-specific rules and that it is impossible to ship lenya with 
one-seze-fits-all navigation logic.


> > My understanding is
> >that Lenya's default navigation logic is the best possible to ship with.
> >
> >With that said, providing a rules-based system (mostly against metadata
> > and user roles) for relatively easy and codeless configuration to
> > specific requirements would be a great step forward. Currently struggling
> > on this, the navigation framework docos provide a general overview but a
> > vertical customization example is definetly missing :-)
>
> can you give such a vertical example?

For a lenya app that grows by handrends of documents per month, i probably 
wouldn't want all of those documents to be freely exposed by the navigation. 
Suppose a generic categorization is needed and exposed by the horizontal tabs 
and beyond that:

* only  documents created/updated during the last 30 days are exposed by the 
navigation.
* due to deep structuring, i only up to three hierachy levels up the context 
document are to be rendered in the navigation menu

That's just business rules.

I am not trying to say that lenya cannot handle that, i just tried to point 
out that lenya cannot fit vertical use-cases out of the box and that, instead 
of trying to figure out a navigation system panacea, the effort should be 
channeled in creating something that is easily customizable. Again, the 
default show-all hierarchical view is definitely the best to ship with.

Cheers,

Manos

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