Hi Caty, > On 06 Jun 2016, at 18:31, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > The Template Provider allows setting the locations where the template must > be available. > Some applications need/encourage their pages to be located in a particular > app location. > Currently, if we set such a location for a template, the template will be > listed in the "Create Page" step only if the user navigates to that > location and clicks on the "Add" button. > > One behavior could be that all templates are displayed each time the user > clicks on 'Add', regardless of the initial location. > This would mean splitting the current Location functionality into "Template > Visibility" and "Creation location restrictions": > - Ideally "Template Visibility" should not be restricted, but we would need > to keep this field in order to be backward compatible with the current > behavior. > - "Creation location restrictions" would indicate if the page needs to be > created in a particular location. The user will not be allowed to create > somewhere else and be warned by an error message. > > This mail's purpose is to debate: > A. If templates should be visible everywhere or just in a particular > location? > B. Should we recommend applications to restrict the creation of pages to a > particular location? > > Let me know what you think.
I think there are lots of various use cases and that both A and B are interesting to have. I wouldn’t deprecate what we have (i.e. A). I would simply add B. Thanks -Vincent > Thanks, > Caty > > Related: > [1] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8759 > [2] > http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/HomepageSketches/HomepageTemplateAvailability/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
