Re: Re: [all] Requirements default publication

Felix Maeder wrote:

> Christian Egli wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>> How can you define the order of navigation items?
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>> You can't. It's as simple as that :-).
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> 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.


Take a look at Midgard/Aegir ;-)



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>>> By manually editing the generated files, or is it planned
>>> to add, e.g., a "insert before" / "insert after" combo box?
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>> I don't think so, no.
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>>> In my eyes, it is useful to separate navigation from URI structure
>>> and to enable the integrator to customize the navigation.
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>> The basic mechanism of the sitetree mechanism definitively has to
>> scale to other methods of editing.
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> 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.


+1

Michael



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