[Pmwiki-users] page draft tryout
John Rankin
john.rankin
Fri Jul 16 19:12:22 CDT 2004
On Saturday, 17 July 2004 7:40 AM, J. Meijer <commentgg at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>I got a bit lost :-/
It does take a bit of getting used to. The conventions are here:
http://intranet.affinity.co.nz/wiki/DraftWP/Conventions
I think it's good for specialised uses, not general wiki editing.
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>What I would like to see is the bare minimum: only when viewing the page one
>would see a link to the draft, and from the draft back to the original. Each
>page has an EditPage link, which works the same as it does now. Really
>simplistic.
If I understand you correctly, I don't think that quite works:
- if the edit page link edits the page you see (ie either the draft or the
original, depending on the view you are on), then here's what happens
1. I edit a page and press Preview & Save Draft; now we have an
original plus a draft
2. I edit the draft and press Preview & Save Draft; the original
is unchanged and the draft is updated
3. I edit the original and press Preview & Save Draft; we just
over-wrote the newer draft -- which may be what we wanted
to do, but it may not
So I concluded it was safer if Edit always edits the draft if one exists.
For your scheme to work safely, I think we'd have to come up with a way
to make it obvious that a newer draft is about to be over-written
and any changes will be lost.
It would be useful to have a link that lets people edit the original,
but I'm not sure where to put it, for the reason given above.
But I might have misunderstood what you have in mind.
And I can easily turn off the ¡ from links to pages with drafts,
and just show it on the page itself. I wondered about that so made it
configurable.
And what would you do about links to pages where a draft exists but there
isn't an original?
>Any save operates on the original page. The draft is only deleted when it is
>saved to the original page or when it is deleted.
Yes
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>jan
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>ps This is what I saw at PageB, which has a draft:
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> DraftWP
> Page B ?
> Home Page ? Page B ?
> This page has a draft as well as the original
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> Note how the display alters ? the title and Edit Page link
>each gain an *
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> Try clicking on the *
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>Don't know, but I see no '*'.
Sorry, the draft was more up to date than the original...
Now correct (I hope).
Thanks for pointing this out.
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JR
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John Rankin
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