Hi, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 16:31, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 have I. I'm +1 with the idea. Guillaume< 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 > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
