[Pmwiki-users] Hierarchical groups

Britta morepork
Tue Jun 8 18:04:45 CDT 2004


Hi,

just to let you know that I could work with and be happy with any of the 3
solutions.
The problems I see are from a user point: how difficult this gets for
non-techie/inexperienced users and how much of a muddle they're therefore
likely to make of it <g>.

Patrick R. Michaud  wrote on  9/06/2004 11:42 a.m. :

> The first is to only allow absolute group names--i.e., all group names
> start from the top.  I personally don't have a problem with this, but
> I suspect people will have issues with the lack of a way to do relative
> group references...

and I guess inexperienced users might get frustrated at having to check and
re-trace the group/page paths ...?
To me it's natural - but a lot of people have no idea what a file system
is.
(Note: I'm not planning on using my PmWiki with inexperienced users - but
the spectre of my husband trying to find his way through something like
this does haunt me.)

> Another approach is to just adopt the filesystem (hierarchical directory)
> form of links.  This has an advantage of being widely understood, at 
> least among people who work with filesystems.

yep. Very similar issues to #1.

> The other approach is to use the first component as a relative anchor
> if it occurs in the current group name.  Thus, in the page Alpha.Beta.Gamma,
> the link [[Beta.Zeta]] would refer to Alpha.Beta.Zeta,

I really like this one ... I think it might be easy/transparent enough even
for inexperienced users ...

> But this can also get confusing, because [[Alpha.Delta.Epsilon]]
> and [[Delta.Epsilon]] refer to different pages,

you've lost me here :0
Why do they refer to different pages?
I thought it would be the same as :
>  even though
> [[Alpha.Beta.Zeta]] and [[Beta.Zeta]] refer to the same page.

I obviously missed something! LOL
  
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Cheers,
                     
               Wednesday, 9 June 2004  11:54 a.m.
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