Re: Re: [all] Requirements default publication

Christian Egli wrote:
> Andreas Hartmann <[email protected]> writes:



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>>>No, the intent is to add pages to the navigation as they are added to
>>>the publication. I know this has problems when you start adding
>>>hundreds of pages but again KISS.
>>
>>How can you define the order of navigation items?
> 
> 
> You can't. It's as simple as that :-).

That's a good point Andreas raises here. And it's not as simple as that, 
unfortunately :(
We will have to come up with a solution how the user can arrange the 
order of the navigation items that are on the same level. From a user's 
perspective, it won't be acceptable to have the items in the navigation 
just in some pre-defined sequence (e.g. chronological, alphabetical). 
That might be ok for a news site where you can arrange the articles or 
press releases in a chronological order, but not for a "free-form" site 
where you want to have the sub-pages in an order that makes sense from 
human understanding.


> 
> 
>>By manually editing the generated files, or is it planned
>>to add, e.g., a "insert before" / "insert after" combo box?
> 
> 
> I don't think so, no.
> 
> 
>>In my eyes, it is useful to separate navigation from URI structure
>>and to enable the integrator to customize the navigation.
> 
> 
> The basic mechanism of the sitetree mechanism definitively has to
> scale to other methods of editing.
> 
It's ok that the integrator is able to customize the navigation to any 
extent if he wants or needs to. But the goal is that a simple, 
standardized navigation is provided with no or almost no customization. 
To show such a (simple) solution would be one of the purposes of the 
default publication.


-Felix