Hi,
What about my suggestion?
I'm also curious if anyone else has an opinion on having "uploadable"
fields add the "File:" to file names. This would be a somewhat big change,
so people may have opinions on it one way or another.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Yury Katkov <katkov.ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For now I can just add some lines of code to the form generator: if
> uploadable option is here it will generate [[property::File:filename]]
> instead of just [[property::filename]].
>
> I've proposed checkbox solution because of the folowing. In my opinion
> Page Schemas can be great visual tool to edit forms and templates very
> quicky. Now the editing of the schema slows because I have to look up tag
> parameters. More buttons, dropdowns and checkboxes could speed up the
> editing process.
> -----
> Yury Katkov, WikiVote
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Yaron Koren <ya...@wikiworks.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yury,
>>
>> Hm, that's true... I hadn't thought of that. Some checkbox could be added
>> to the Page Schemas form, but maybe the better solution is just to have
>> uploadable fields in SF start adding a "File:" to the beginning of file
>> names they've uploaded. It's something that various people have asked
>> about, but I never took that seriously - I liked the "cleanliness" of not
>> including the namespace, and just having the file name. But maybe that
>> cleanliness is more trouble than it's worth - I know that, even without
>> this Page Schemas issue, the fact that a "File:" needs to be added to the
>> template has caused a considerable amount of confusion.
>>
>> The main counter-argument might be that this approach is already in place
>> on a lot of wikis, so making a change to the upload setup would require
>> people to change a lot of existing pages; but then again,
>> backward-compatibility can't be a reason to never make a change, and the
>> Replace Text extension might be able to help with that sort of thing anyway.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> -Yaron
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Yury Katkov <katkov.ju...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Yaron, all!
>>>
>>> It's possible now to create uploadable fields in forms via PageSchemas:
>>> we just create a Page property and specifily the field as uploadable in
>>> additional paramerest. There is however an issue.
>>> When I generate the templates I need the File namespace to be added in
>>> front of the filename:
>>>
>>> [[someproperty::File:MyCoolPicture.jpg]]
>>>
>>> Instead I have the following:
>>>
>>> [[someproperty::MyCoolPicture.jpg]]
>>>
>>> and my image not appears on the page.
>>>
>>> Yaron, what's your advice on how to better handle that in a PageSchemas
>>> if I want to add this feature? What about adding a checkbox "uploadable" to
>>> the Field definition?
>>> -----
>>> Yury Katkov, WikiVote
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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