I've already met the need to have B on a project based on XWiki. Like Vincent, I would simply add B and makes A optional.
2016-06-06 21:07 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
