Re: silva document layout enhancement proposal

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 03:24:28 am Jonathan Bowlas wrote:
> This sounds great, we'd be particularly interested in being able to create
> our own custom layouts (7) as it's far from straightforward to do this at
> the moment. We're currently struggling with overriding news object views.

I hadn't thought about that...this functionality will need to be extensible to 
other meta types / interfaces as well...

I don't quite know what that would look...whether there would be a 
SilvaNewsItem document layout, which provides the news publication 
information in a separate css'd column, in addition to the standard the ones 
that SilvaDocument provides.  The ZMI-based document layout service would 
need to be able to register document layouts for each meta_type / interface.

And, I wonder if this system should be based on meta_types, or the more Zope 3 
portable interfaces...

Andy

>
> J
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: silva-dev-bounces-IAPFreCvJWM6s/[email protected]
> [mailto:silva-dev-bounces-IAPFreCvJWM6s/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Altepeter
> Sent: 18 December 2007 15:21
> To: silva-dev-IAPFreCvJWM6s/[email protected]
> Subject: [silva-dev] silva document layout enhancement proposal
>
> Greetings,
>
> I ran this by Kit, and he suggested the conversation be broadened to
> include
>
> all of silva-dev.  I've also created a launchpad issue so this doesn't get
> forgotten, https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/silva/+bug/177171.  Here's the
> text of the issue:
>
> We've noticed that it is difficult to get "advanced" layouts for a
> silva-based
> web pages. Sure, you can use a code source and embed documents, positioning
> with CSS and such, but a non-technical person isn't capable of such things.
> Most of the content in our CMS is generated by non-technical folks. They
> stick to what they know: one page with simple top to bottom text and rarely
> any graphics.
>
> Here's a proposal for Silva (document) to transform to have more control
> over
> document layout:
>
> 1) the web design team, while creating the identity/look/layout for the
> site,
> also specifies a few "standard" page layouts (e.g. full-page, two-column,
> floating box on the right, content on top, then two column below, etc) Each
> section of the page is a separate "page section"
> 2) Someone with access to the ZMI adds the code for these layouts to a
> service
> in the ZMI
> 3) When you create a Silva Document, you are prompted to choose what
> document
> layout to use for the page. The default is "full-page". (note that this
> isn't
> the same as choosing a different page layout/template when using
> SilvaLayout...SL is for the template, this proposal is for document layout
> of
> the content of a page)
> 4) When you edit the document, kupu edits the first document section.
> 5) There is a tool in kupu that shows which section you are editing, and
> allows you to edit a different document section. I wonder if we can store
> all
> the content in one Silva Document somehow, maybe with section tags.
> 6) There is also a facility to change your document layout to one of the
> other
> pre-defined ones. This isn't exactly a "preview", as it could be the case
> that new document sections need to be created, or existing ones moved
> around
>
> (e.g. news panel on right / left of main content)
> 7) It would be neat if there was an "advanced" layout that you could use to
> create your own custom layout.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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