<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">noskule</b> <<a href="mailto:noskule@gmx.net">noskule@gmx.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
May we<br>start first with a call for usecases ?</blockquote><div><br>
I've used it a couple of times. The things it has that I really value are<br>
1) users can create *and later edit* entries in a form. The times
I've used this, it's been for a CRM-like situation, where the owners of
the sites didn't have any interest in getting (outside) users involved
in the wiki-ness of it all. So the more that I can tweak it to
keep form-users "in the form" the better.<br>
<br>
2) that wonderful tabular summary wikitable = substitute for a
database, with the abilities to A) click a link in the table to go to
the record, B) click a heading to sort on it, and C) create a table
that is a subset of the full collection of pages. <br>
<br>
In one case, the potential owners were so uninterested in the wiki-ness
of it that they didn't even want to hear about it, and I would have
been paid to maintain the entire site. I'd have created pages
myself from data users would have submitted via a *mailform.* <br>
<br>
I'd have posted each record to a nicely-formatted page *and* created a
corresponding set of hidden pages to generate the wikiform's wikitable.
The wikitable would have had links in the user-name fields to the
nicely-formatted pages and not to the wikiform pages at all (this was
before the Page column of the wikitable could be hidden, so I also
forced a click on the numeric-wikiform-page-link to redirect to the
corresponding nicely-formatted page). <br>
<br>
All of that extra layer of pages because I wanted the virtues of the
wikitable, but couldn't use the wikiforms pages because they couldn't
be made CRM-like enough, and couldn't be made to hold other things like
formatting, images, other text, links, etc.<br>
<br>
I'm hoping that's useful case-information. I really like these
features and am very impressed with JR's design work and helpfulness,
but I know I've been using the whole design in ways for which it simply
wasn't intended. Not being a programmer, I've just been hacking
at what I can find already in place. Maybe a whole parallel
design is what's really called for here. I know from comments on
the Cookbook/WikiForms page *and* on the list serve that there are
others who are trying to do similar things with it.<br>
<br>
Tegan Dowling<br>
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