On 02/24/2010 07:53 AM, shelan Perera wrote: > 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 make the autosuggest add some kind of marker to the affected fields, so that a user can know that an autosuggest is used. > >> We should wait for a web UI expert :) >> > > > Yes.Hoping some comments on that > >> >> Thanks. >> >> - Asiri >> >> >> > > Thanks, > > Regards > > Shelan Perera -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
