RE: Wishlist wyona brainstorming

Hi Roger

Thanks for your input. Below my comments:

> Documentation/FAQ
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I know it's not a very appealing subject for developers, but 
> I think that
> deepening and re-organizing the documentation would really 
> help (potential)
> users and admins.

I completely agree.

> - deepening: Quite a lot of the documentation is empty or the 
> links lead to
> the sentence "to be documented soon". Putting real content 
> there would make
> people's decision to actually use wyona CMS a bit easier.

This has been bugging me for quite some time.

> - re-organizing: Maybe it's better to reduce the 4 sections
> (user/admin/integrator/developer) to 3 sections (by either combining
> user&admin or admin&integrator). This would help people like 
> me who are on
> the one hand user and on the other hand amdin or integrator 
> finding the
> documentation of a specific topic.

Good idea.

> - re-organization II:
> BTW: The user guide begins with the not very encouring topic "strange
> effects". Maybe one could replace this by a FAQ (including 
> e.g. the hint to
> install MS-XML on windows).

Oh yes, I noticed this and it it annoys me. It would be nice to
reorganize the docu, clean out old cruft and maybe separate things into
a FAQ. Obviously we have to set priorities and we'll have to see how
high on the TODO list this will end up. Would you like to have a go at
this together with me? 

> 
> Publications & CVS
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> unipublic is AFAIK the first real-life publication using 
> wyona cms. It would
> be good to distinguish in future between "sample publications" and "my
> publications" (on the document structure level and for the CVS).

I don't quite understand what you mean here. Maybe you're saying that we
should separate Wyona and the sample publications in CVS?

> Content Management: OpenOffice vs. web based XML Editor
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I like Julian's and Markus' idea of using OpenOffice to edit 
> content, WebDAV
> to access it and wyona CMS to manage it. This is certainly a way to go

Yup, I'm hoping that with the Slide integration we will get this.

> Link Management
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> One thing I am missing at the moment is a visual tool to easily create
> "internal" links, i.e. links withing the documents of my 
> publications. What
> I have in mind is something like "point and shoot" in Golive. 

You'll have to show this to me one of these days.

> This would of
> course include the automatic link actualisation if the target 
> moves or is
> renamed.

Hm, yes sounds like a good feature. I don't know how hard it'd be.
 
> User Admin and Workflow
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> An easy-to-use visual tool (GUI) for user administration and 
> the definition
> of a worfklow

Would be nice, yes.

> A last remark: I know wishing is easy and it's a big wish 
> list.  And I know
> that you all do a great job in improving wyona CMS. I just took this
> opportunity to express the demands of an actual user of wyona CMS.

It great and encouraging to get user feedback even if it's just wish
lists. If it goes even further and turns into involvement (see above
about documentation) that would make not only my day but at least my
week :-)

Christian

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