+1 Thanks, Marius
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 > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
