[pmwiki-users] Re: off-topic: Behaviour of non-existiant home page (was: Nested groups)
chr at home.se
chr at home.se
Fri Jun 3 02:31:44 CDT 2005
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2005-06-02 10:53 PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> >I'll be the first to admit that the current behavior isn't entirely
> >obvious, but I'm also uncertain as to what the better alternative is.
> >It doesn't seem entirely right to me that Main.PageNotFound appears
> >up for every non-existent page, but perhaps that's what it should
> >be. (We'd also have to carefully consider webcrawler ramifications.)
I just looked at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test1 and now it works as it
should. However, maybe the text could be improved for this particular
case? Currently it says:
We couldn't find a page called "Test1". You can:
* Create Test1.Test1?
* Create Test1.HomePage?
* Create Main.Test1?
Or, perhaps the page you want is listed below:
Test1 /
NewPage
RecentChanges
SomePage
I think one thing that is confusing here (when the user only specified the
name of a group) is the phrase
We couldn't find a page called "Test1". You can:
* Create ...
If we had a hiearchical structure where there could actually be a page
called simply /Test1, then the sentence makes sence. In this case however,
don't we mean something more like
We couldn't find a primary page for the group "Test1". You can:
* Create ...
...
The pages in group "Test1" are listed below.
...
The drawback with this is of course that the same phrase cannot be used if
the person had actually specified a page within some group... I guess we
could either use separate "error-pages" for these cases, or use
conditional statements to produce different texts?
/Christian
Btw, I remember us having more or less this discussion a while back...
does anyone have a link to those posts? What was the reason we chose the
current solution?
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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