On Jun 24, 2004, at 2:06 AM, Grinshtein, Artem wrote:
Hello,
the concept of folders and pages is great!
I'm not sure I completely understand need of a menu decorator and a folder configuration.
I think, menu can be implemented as jetspeed-specific portlet that uses a "PageAndFolderService" to find Folder elements for current page.
The folder configuration can be obtained from the portlet preferences.
+1 on the service (component), although we already have a Profiler and PageManager service
Perhaps PageAndFolderService is really a combination of the Profiler and the PageManager, with some enhancements
The profiler now has an API to search over pages, I think it could be extended to support Folders
I like the idea of menu portlets, I started designing a prototype in J1 with menus + forwards, but never completed it
The advantage of this is that we don't mix structure and presentation of folders, we keep psml simple, it's easy to develop new types of menu (it's ~only~ a portlet), position of the menu on the page can be changed (using Customizer) and the menu can be configured using edit mode of the portlet.
I also like the Scott's concept of folders automatically having menus of sub contents, with no customization required
Very powerful concept since the user gets a lot of built-in navigation without an effort
I think we should concentrate on implementing this first, although Im not opposed to menu portlets
Preferences can be stored to save a user's (or default) preferences for menu ordering, hiding, links etc
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