On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Asiri Rathnayake <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi shelan,
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:30 PM, shelan Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to suggest an enhancement for the target space.
> > If we use a drop down list generated using a small code snippet of
> velocity
> > i hope that would be easier for an average user.
> >
> > By default it is getting the current document name :  ${doc.web}
> >
> > for the list we can generate a list of spaces available in the wiki :
> >
> >                                                           #set($spaces =
> > $xwiki.spaces)
> >
> >
>  #foreach($space
> > in $spaces)
> >
>
> I think we discussed about this sometime ago on the devs list. Can you
> check
> (in dev list archives) what was discussed earlier? and may be improve your
> idea based on that?
>

I searched in the archive but i was n't able to locate the thread.Was it a
recent thread?

>
> Anyway, I think your idea is good, but we'll need to give the user an
> opportunity to create a new space if he wishes to do so. May be an
> additional [New Space] list item on the drop-down list? (+ a separate text
> field that becomes visible if the user selects this list item).
>


Even we use a simple drop down to select the Text field is availale as usual
where user can type a new Space if wanted.


>
> Still, I think we opted for using an auto-suggest box instead because it is
> the convention in most XWiki UIs. I personally find this auto-suggest box a
> bit disturbing and not-so-visible. Not sure if others would agree or not.
>
>
If it is a xwiki convetion then the available option seems good,When i first
use the importer without having a proper idea abou how many spaces are
availble i bit confused initially.

This implemetation gives and idea about how many spaces actually exists in
the wiki that a user can import new articles.



> We should wait for a web UI expert :)
>


Yes.Hoping some comments on that

>
> Thanks.
>
> - Asiri
>
>
>

Thanks,

Regards

Shelan Perera














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> >
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