[pmwiki-users] [O-T] Re: Blog proposal

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:23:03PM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> > > So what if we could have a field in the edit page (perhaps only when
> > > creating the page the first time), which let's the author either fill
> > > in the name of the trail page, or simply check a box to have it added
> > > to the default trail page? (The name of that trail page would need to
> > > be shown).
> > 
> > Ick.  Better is to have an option that causes a page containing trail
> > markup to be automatically added to the trail.  :-)
> 
> I've already got the trail markup in GroupHeader... 
> 
> Why do you say 'ick'?  I wonder if you understand what I'm thinking of
> here... For wiki.lyx.org I have a feeling that a checkbox would be very
> useful for infrequent authors?  For that matter, I'd probably find it
> convenient myself.

Because as soon someone says "checkbox to add to the default trail page",
it becomes "drop-down list of available trails to add to", along
with "automatically add trail markup into the page".  I think I'd
prefer to just start with the trail markup.

For button-level simplicity, why not just add a GUIButton that
inserts the trail markup to link to the default page?  Couple
that with "trail markup automatically adds the page to the trail"
and it's a one-button operation to get a page onto a trail.
(Positioning the page in the trail still requires an edit, but
the link is already available.)

Pm