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[Phpwiki-talk] Suggestion - new page templates

[Lawrence A. <la...@20...>]

Hi,

I have been following this list for a while, and have been annoying people 
with bug reports, but I have never posted here before.  Please be gentle 
with me :-)

I was looking at WikkiTikkiTavi this morning for feature ideas.  One thing 
they have just implemented is new page templates.  You can click a link to 
create a new page in the usual way, or you can select (from an appropriate 
index page) from a list of templates.  If you choose a template (eg, 
FAQpage, HomePage, MeetingNote etc), the default text in the edit box 
(currently 'Describe [....] here', for us) is filled in accordingly.  You 
can then edit it as you wish.

This is very helpful for stie admins running eg documentation projects, 
where they want to achieve some consistent look and feel.

We could implement this with a plugin, which takes as its argument the 
default text to appear in the edit box.  Alternatively perhpas, the admin 
could set up a list of predefined templates, and then create a link (using 
a plugin with the template name as an argument) which when clicked creates 
a new page with the right default text.


What do people think of this idea?

Lawrence Akka


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Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Suggestion - new page templates

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Lawrence Akka schrieb:
> I was looking at WikkiTikkiTavi this morning for feature ideas.  One thing
> they have just implemented is new page templates.  You can click a link to
> create a new page in the usual way, or you can select (from an appropriate
> index page) from a list of templates.  If you choose a template (eg,
> FAQpage, HomePage, MeetingNote etc), the default text in the edit box
> (currently 'Describe [....] here', for us) is filled in accordingly.  You
> can then edit it as you wish.

very good.
I would use it.

BTW: Steve, cannot this list be managed to reply to list per default 
and not reply to poster. seems to be mailman.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Suggestion - new page templates

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

Gagh. Still trying to keep up with the list volume... so...:

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Reini Urban wrote:

> BTW: Steve, cannot this list be managed to reply to list per default
> and not reply to poster. seems to be mailman.

I set it to the recommended default, which is reply to user, and in Pine I
always get the question "Reply to all?" and I just choose that. Have you
accidentally replied only to the sender?

~swain

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Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Mail list [was Suggestion - new page templates]

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

Reply-all sends a copy to the sender, and a copy to the list.  The result 
is that the sender gets two copies of each message.  If you can set it to 
reply to list, the sender (who is presumably subscribed) will receive just 
one copy - as Nature intended.

Also, is there a way to search the archive?

Lawrence


At 07:17 11/12/2001, Steve Wainstead wrote:

>Gagh. Still trying to keep up with the list volume... so...:
>
>On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Reini Urban wrote:
>
> > BTW: Steve, cannot this list be managed to reply to list per default
> > and not reply to poster. seems to be mailman.
>
>I set it to the recommended default, which is reply to user, and in Pine I
>always get the question "Reply to all?" and I just choose that. Have you
>accidentally replied only to the sender?
>
>~swain

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Suggestion - new page templates

[Joe E. <jo...@or...>]

> What do people think of this idea?

I think it's a great idea, and I may implement it myself in a month or two
if no one else has before then.

It looks like you could just add an if statement testing a "copy" parameter
to lib/editpage.php which, if triggered, would use another page's content in
the edit form.  Then you could either:

    (a) modify the EDITPAGE template to include links which reload the edit
page with copy=X set; or
    (b) create a small plugin called TotallyNewPage which displays a
(possibly dynamic) list of templates for the user to choose from with links
into action=edit&copy=X, and rig the ?MissingPageLinks to point to that
intermediate plugin page instead of "&action=edit" in LinkUnknownWikiWord()
in lib/stdlib.php.

This is a very simple approach;  there has been talk of making a templating
system more sophisticated than this for use in weblogs.

    Joe

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Suggestion - new page templates

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Joe Edelman schrieb:
> This is a very simple approach;  there has been talk of making a templating
> system more sophisticated than this for use in weblogs.

which weblogging software? 
I only know helma
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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/