[Plone-UI] how to fix "Not obvious how to edit/publish folder when it has a default page"?

Nathan Van Gheem nathan at vangheem.us
Thu Sep 26 13:54:00 UTC 2013


I wonder if we should plip disabling the Folder content type by default and
making all other types folders.

Or is it conceptually difficult for people to understand they can add a
page inside of a page?


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Nathan Van Gheem <nathan at vangheem.us>wrote:

> quick thought, in plone 5, I don't know if we had everyone sold on making
> all types folderish. Right now, all types are NOT folderish in plone 5:
> https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/blob/master/plone/app/contenttypes/content.py
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Dylan Jay <djay at pretaweb.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'll be leading a UX sprint after the upcoming conference. In addition to
>> the current initiatives (toolbar, widgets and a new theme) I'd like to see
>> if can come up with some ideas to fix some of the top problems from our UX
>> hit-list.
>>
>> #1 for editors is "Not obvious how to edit/publish folder when it has a
>> default page"
>>
>> This also seems related to
>> #3 "idea of default page is not obvious"
>> #19 "not obvious how to change url"
>> #24 "Navigation being tied to folder structure isn't obvious"
>>
>> and to a lesser extent #7 "Not obvious display menu changes item + no way
>> to preview"
>>
>> I'd like to get as many ideas from anyone thats interested on how they
>> think this could be solved. I'll take these to sprint and see what we come
>> up with.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> For context I believe in plone5 with the new dexterity content types all
>> items will be folderish. I don't think the change means folders gain a rich
>> text body field. It does mean that default pages become potentially more
>> confusing since where does clicking "contents" take you to on a default
>> page? the contents of the folder or the default page?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dylan Jay
>>
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>
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> Nathan Van Gheem
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