RE: [Apc-aa-coders] Named views

[Michael de B. <mi...@de...>]

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:31:17 +0100, "Jakub Adamek"
<jak...@se...> said:
> There is a simpler way: Generate vid by random. The function must proove
> the vid generated does not yet exist and if it does than generate
> another one. 
> It is not 100% perfect, because there is a chance another installation
> generated the same id, but it is very simple. And who can be sure the
> name is unique?

I like Mitra's idea of Named views better than
Jakub's idea of random ids.  I like 'Names' better because they are
human readable.

I wrote a script misc/txt2fields/ which is a sort of slice 
structure export utility that is more human readable/human editable.  
I think human-editable is quite useful.

However, there is the problem of "Will the Name 'News' be unique?"

Would my idea below work -- when a view is created, you can try to give
it a 'name'?

If a view with that name already exists
  AND you have permission to overwrite the view,
Then you are asked if you want to overwrite the named view with your
view.

If a view with that name does NOT already exist,
  then you are allowed to give it that name.

In import utilities there could be a flag that either allows or warns and
denies 
overwrites of views.

Michael

> 
> Jakub
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:apc...@li...] On Behalf Of Mitra
> > Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 2:51 AM
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> > Subject: [Apc-aa-coders] Named views
> > 
> > 
> > Has anyone considered adding NAMES to views, so that a vid could be 
> > either a name or a number?
> > 
> > The reason I want to do this is that I'd like to develop a site on my 
> > laptop  macintosh (which has working apc-aa on it) , the problem is 
> > that if I export site structure it will have view numbers - which 
> > will not be usable on the other machine.
> > 
> > If noone has done this - and you think its a good idea - then I might 
> > be willing to make the changes. (by adding an optional name field to 
> > views, and having everywhere that vid= is recognized understand it? )
> > 
> > - Mitra
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