Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
> Hi Devs,
> 
> The office importer module has reached a point where it can be integrated
> into XWiki's UI:
> 
> Currently there are two UI's provided by office importer:
> 
> 1. The Wysiwyg plugin which should be integrated to Wysiwyg UI (obviously) :
> http://91.121.237.216/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
> 
> 2. The office importer application :
> http://91.121.237.216/xwiki/bin/view/Import/
> 
> We need to decide how we will allow users to discover the office importer
> application from the main UI. Following are some options:
> 
> a) Add the "import" action to one of our existing menus
> 
> Problem: I don't see any existing menus where "import" will fit in.
> 
> b) Add a new menu named "Import" into the main menu bar. like { | Edit |
> show | print | import | actions | watch  }
> 
> Problem: existing menus and their menu items always refer to actions
> performed on the current document (wiki page) while importing is about
> importing an office document to a new wiki page.

Exactly.

> Possible solution : We can change the office importer slightly so that it
> overwrites the current wiki page with the imported document.
> 
> Any other options ?

c) Reorganize the menu into two areas:
- current page actions (with what's currently in the left part of the menu)
- wiki actions: Create, Import, Administration

A draft UI proposal can be seen at
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Sandbox/sample/newUI.png
-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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