+1

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1
>
> Thanks,
> Eduard
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:16 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> Some users have raised that when you click on the pencil icon in the
>> Create/Delete/Move/Rename UIs, the user has to understand the “dot
>> notation” (ie the reference notation) and that it’s not user-friendly for
>> simple users.
>>
>> Here’s what I propose:
>>
>> 1) Only display the pencil icon (and thus the advanced controls) for
>> Advanced Users.
>> 2) Note that we were doing this initially but it was modified to fix
>> http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12526. The idea would be to fix
>> XWIKI-12526 differently by modifying how we perform validation on the title
>> field: if the title field is empty, don’t expand the location edit controls
>> and just highlight the title field (for simple users).
>> 3) (suggested by Edy): Introduce controls in the modal document picker
>> (tree) for creating empty documents in place (similar to creating new
>> folders in an operating system's folder picker, where you would create new
>> folders until you achieve the hierarchy you desire). We could even think
>> about using a template (e.g. space homepage) for these "placeholder"
>> documents.
>>
>> E.g.
>> http://i.stack.imgur.com/umdE9.png
>>
>> http://www.mclures.net/java/struts/Together/Struts-screenshots/create_project/4.1struts-example-New_Project-Create_New_Folder.gif
>> (contextual menu)
>> etc...
>>
>> The advantage of this would be that it would make more sense to simple
>> users and it would also be something they could use. Of course, one
>> downside would be the extra empty/placeholder documents that it would
>> create, but you have the same thing in a filesystem, more or less.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
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