On May 27, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> On 05/27/2010 02:41 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
>> Hi XWikiers,
>> 
>> I've been working on the ability to provide document templates on
>> document creation lately.
>> It's documented on dev.xwiki.org:
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/DocumentTemplates
>> 
>> Implementation:
>> - New "create" xwiki action
>> - Templates: create.vm, createinline.vm (for inline and ajax uses)
> 
> Doesn't this clash with the existing create.vm?
> 
>> - Modification in the xwiki-core-rendering-xwiki core module so that
>> it gets the correct action (create) for broken links
>> - New XClass: XWiki.TemplateProviderClass (with associated sheet and
>> template), this class allow to build the list of template entries to
>> display in the create document form.
>> - New administration section: Templates. Allows to list existing
>> template providers and to create new ones.
>> 
>> I'm almost ready to commit (I only need one more day to write
>> functional tests) and I'd really like to do it after the 2.4M1
>> release. WDYT ?
> 
> Some quick remarks:
> 
> - Shouldn't the template list be in a select box, to be able to display 
> many possible templates? Or we assume that a normal wiki should have at 
> most 10 templates, and the user can change the display if he needs to? 

IMO a livetable for selecting the template might be good too so that it can 
scale, allow searching, etc

> Or, should we automatically switch from radio list to drop down select 
> when the number of templates goes beyond an acceptable number?
> 
> - Should the list of accepted spaces be a livetable instead?

big +1 ;)

(indeed there can be lots of spaces)

Thanks
-Vincent

> 
> - Does the modal dialog really need the highlight background? I'd rather 
> have it simple, without the extra background.
> 
>> JIRA: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-672
>> 
>> JV.

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