On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Luca Anca <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > since I fail in all the ways to get a dashboard to be editable when > editing it after creation from a template, I would like to know what you > think of the next idea: > > We add a field to the TemplateProvider to specify what should be the > action on creation from that template: "save & view", "save & edit", or > "edit". > > Let me explain what first option would mean and then you'll figure out > the other ones. When you have a template provider with "save and view" > action on creation the following will happen: > 1. click the add button > 2. choose a template & fill in the page & space name > 3. click create > 4. the document is created and saved, and the user is being shown the > document in view mode. > > The current implementation is "edit", which means that at point 4 in the > list above no document is saved, the user is being shown the new > document is edit mode, and until he hits save the document is not saved. > > I think it's a nice to have feature, since for other templates it might > make sense that the document is, actually, created (and saved). Since a > document created from a template already has content, it has meaning and > data. > > ** The only major drawback** I see with this is that, looking at the > create form, the user will not know what will happen when he clicks > "Create", since it will vary according to his choice of template. We > might fix this by adding this information under the template name in the > list of templates in this form. > > What do you think about this? is it a nice feature to have?
I think it makes sense. I have seen several applications doing that (for various reasons, like creating a document with generated content ; or forms that needs to offer attachments form upon creation) So making it a feature of template providers makes sense to me. Jerome. > > Thanks, > Anca > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
