I assume user input is welcome here...

I have a "small" business site that will easily have 100-200 pages that 
I'm planning to move to radiant.  On its way to publication, it is 
common to adjust the parent of a page as we settle on our structure and 
linking.

> I don't think reparenting should be a drag/drop operation - I quite liked to
> idea of having a 'parent' drop-down list in the page metadata (though that 
> also has the problem with large numbers of pages).

A drop-down list would be hard on the writers having to read through all 
possible parents.  By the way, I am more likely to move a page up or 
down a level than to move it laterally (make its aunt/uncle its new 
parent).  A lot has to do with the interface design, but teaching users 
one operation (drag-drop) for everything should be easier than 
remembering two and when each is to be used.

Another thought.  I've only looked briefly at things like scriptaculous 
JS drag-drop operations.  Do they allow for cases where the destination 
location is off-screen (scrolling needed)?  Otherwise you still run into 
problems with large numbers of pages (though you could move a page using 
multiple hops).

> I'd also like to see the option of leaving behind a redirect action to 
> maintain cool uris.

BIG thumbs up for this idea.  I wish all the uri adjusting only happened 
on the way to publishing but the real world doesn't seem to always work 
that way for me.


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