[pmwiki-users] Re: off-topic: Behaviour of non-existiant home page (was: Nested groups)

Neil Herber nospam at eton.ca
Fri Jun 3 06:46:00 CDT 2005


At 2005-06-03  09:31 AM +0200, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
>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 ...

The major thing that is confusing is that the behavior changes depending on:
1) whether or not  the group Test1 exists
2) whether or not  the pageTest1.Test1 exists
3) whether or not  the page Test1.HomePage exists
4) whether or not  the page Main.Test1 exists

The present behavior looks arbitrary. Sometime you get a dialog asking 
about a series of options and sometimes you get what looks like an empty 
page with an invitation to populate it.

The ONLY ways you can get PageNotFound to display is by entering a URL with 
an unknown page and group or a known group with no home page. Any link 
created on an existing page to an "unknown" page is automatically part of 
the linking page's group, and it always opens an edit window.

I cannot see any disadvantage to having all "unfound" pages cause 
PageNotFound to be displayed. Is there one? The language used on 
PageNotFound deserves attention too, but is a secondary issue, IMHO.


Neil

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