On 9/16/05, Michael Wechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.openadvantage.org/articles/oadocument.2005-04-20.0390317970
== From the article:
The interface is very detailed, providing a lot of options for each
content element. For example, each content element has 8 tabs of
configuration options, including metadata, versioning and workflow
information. However, this would make the interface difficult to
follow for a non-technical author. For example, I found the workflow
rules very unintuitive, and had a struggle to even publish new content
to the site.
Another issue would be working out how to clean out the examples
provided with the default install. The content files themselves are
spread over several directories, and it would be a fairly complex task
working out which to remove.
==
So I am not alone thinking those were poor design choices.
We just had a very long thread about removing the tabs from the GUI,
although I do not believe anybody is working on it. Moving the
workflow actions from the menu onto the document information would be
a big improvement. Also remove the confirmation screens; I clicked
"Publish", so publish it now, update the status, and let me undo
easily with the versions if it was a mistake.
The easiest method for fixing the content structure would move the
current top-level directories to the bottom level, and rename the
sitetree.xml files to differentiate them:
content/sitetree-live.xml
content/sitetree-authoring.xml
content/sitetree-archive.xml
content/sitetree-trash.xml
content/{docID}/live/index_en.xml
content/{docID}/authoring/index_en.xml
content/{docID}/authoring/index_de.xml
content/{docID}/index_en.xml.rcml
content/{docID}/index_en.xml.bak.1110678572470
content/{docID}/workflow/index_en.xml
That modification could be completed in one day, just rearranging the
path creators. Then everything related to a document would be
together. The "rcml" and "rcbak" directories could be removed, since
the extensions identify the files. The issue that "live",
"authoring", and "workflow" are not allowed for document IDs can be
solved with a simple check during document creation warning they are
not acceptable.
The only lost functionality is "Publish All" by manually copying of
the "authoring" directory and renaming it "live", but that was a hack.
A "Publish All" task that follows all policies including recording
the history would be much better.
solprovider
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