On 24 Aug 2015 at 14:21:19, Marius Dumitru Florea
([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> I recently discussed with Edy about how the breadcrumb should look and
> there may be an inconsistency with the hierarchy displayed by the
> document tree.
>
> Breadcrumb on the main wiki:
>
> Home Icon (pointing to the main wiki home page) / MDoc1 / MDoc2 / ... / MDocX
>
> Breadcrumb on a subwiki (that has only global users):
>
> Home Icon (pointing to the main wiki home page) / Subwiki Pretty Name
> (pointing to the subwiki home page) / SDoc1 / SDoc2 / ... / SDocX
>
> After seeing the breadcrumbs both on the main wiki and on a subwiki
> the user might think that the document MDoc1 and the wiki "Subwiki
> Pretty Name" are on the same level: both children of the main wiki.
>
> Next if the user tries the document tree macro using:
>
> {{documentTree showWikis="true" /}}
>
> he will notice that "Subwiki Pretty Name" is not actually a child of
> the main wiki but a top level node (a child of the "farm"), on the
> same level with the main wiki.
>
> Can this be considered as an inconsistency? In our model (e.g.
> document reference) there is no hierarchy between wikis, although, as
> Edy pointed out, there are places where we consider the main wiki to
> be the "parent" of the subwikis (e.g. in the authorization module, by
> inheriting access rights from the main wiki).
>
> WDYT? Is the main wiki the parent of the subwikis or just a sibling?
Good question and indeed we need to decide what we want to do since we have the
2 options.
Personally I think it’s interesting to mark the main wiki as special since it
is special (accounts there are different than on subwikis) so I’d be in favor
of considering subwikis as children of the main wiki.
> Should the breadcrumb be synchronized with the tree?
I’d say the other way around. The tree should probably show the main wiki as
the parent of all subwikis. And when there’s only one wiki (ie the main wiki),
we could simply not show the wiki level for simplicity. We could also decide to
open the tree to the level below the main wiki by default so that users don’t
have to open it themselves.
Thanks
-Vincent
>
> Thanks,
> Marius
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