Hello all, For me the issue is larger than just the wiki links, page references are required in multiple other places, most notably in the macro parameters in the macro wizard of the wysiwyg. If creation of links can be workedaround by using the links dialog of the wysiwyg, filling in wiki parameters can not be worked around. Also, the problem becomes even more important with nested spaces being there, since WebHome is never displayed in the URL but always required when referring to a page in a wiki macro parameter. Also, note that not being able to point correctly to a page from the parameters of a wiki macro will render very interesting wiki macros useless for some users (e.g. the include/display macros, the documents macro to display all the children of a document, etc).
What I propose is to implement H quickly, since it seems quite simple, to compensate for this miss, and then explore one of the other solutions, which seem more complex. I created an issue for this since for me is more like a bug, especially when it comes to regular users having to give a parameter to a wiki macro http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-13362 . Thanks, Anca On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:56 PM, vinc...@massol.net <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > Hi devs, > > A user has reported the following, mentioning it was taking a lot of > steps, and we’ve all experimented that creating wiki links could be easier: > > “ > 1. Go to page you want to link to (Target Page). > a. Copy URL > 2. Go to page where you want to add the link (Source Page) > 3. Edit it using Wiki Syntax Editor > 4. Create the link > i. Write [[ > ii. write label > iii. write >> > iv. paste the link pointing to Target Page > v. Remove https://w.amazon.com/bin/view from pasted link > vi. Replace manually all encoded URL strings (like + and other > symbols) > vii. Replace “/” with “.” > viii. Add WebHome > ix. write ]] > 5. Save > 6. Done. > " > > So I’d like to brainstorm about what we could do to make it easier to > creating wiki links. > > Some ideas: > > A) Remove step 4. ix with http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12920 > > B) The label>> parts (steps ii and iii) can be omitted, especially when > the link label generation is configured to use titles > > C) The real solution for me is autocomplete on links: > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-206 This should probably be > implemented in the autocomplete extension: see > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/AutoCompletion+API > and > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/AutoCompletion+Application > > D) Using CTRL+G helps since it provides the reference and helps in finding > the page to link to. It can be considered as a simplified autocomplete, ie > a simplified impl for C). > > E) Marius mentioned elsewhere: "I would also like to have a common Insert > Link dialog between the CKEditor and the Wiki Editor. You click on a button > on the tool bar, you get a dialog where you can search for the target page > (or select it from the tree) and then click Insert, which will generate the > wiki syntax for your. The Insert Link dialog can have a shortcut key for > quick access. Of course autocomplete is nicer but it's more work, while the > Insert Link dialog is a must for the CKEditor anyway.” > > F) Marius mentioned elsewhere: "We can also implement a dedicated "Insert > Reference" dialog for the Wiki Editor that offers a text input where you > can paste an URL and the dialog attempts to extract the entity reference > from the URL and inserts it in the Wiki Editor text area to be used for > links but also for macros or anywhere where you might need a document > reference. This can be implemented as an XWiki extension.” > > G) Add the ability to paste a full URL in the reference part of wiki links > and upon save the Rendering will automatically transform it into a document > reference if it’s a local link. And if you want a real url for a local link > then you’d need to use the “url:” prefix. Implementation: One relatively > simple solution is to parse the URL (using a > ResourceTypeResolver/ResourceReferenceResolver) and then serialize it and > verify if the result matches the passed URL. If it does it means it’s a > local URL. > > H) Caty mentioned elsewhere: "We could display the reference of a page in: > a. a Permalink dialog (containing the URL + reference) that the user can > copy paste in browser input or editor > b. Information tab > c. other?” > > > IMO the best (possibly not the easiest) are C) and G). With those 2 we > would get: > * easy pasting of existing URLs > * easily finding the page you want to link to when you don’t have its URL > > Now, even if we agree to do C) and G) in the future I still think that all > the other ideas (ie. E, F and H) could also be implemented. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
