[Pmwiki-users] Why heirarchy?

[Fred Chittenden]

There's all sorts of applications and uses for hierarchical structure.  
For example, I'm fooling around with a soccer club's rec team with about
4000 youth players on several 400 hundred teams.  The most logical
structure would seem to be

*Rec Soccer
**Boys (with ages U7-U18)
***U7
****Schedule and Results
****Team A
*****Roster
*****Practice schedule
*****Team News
****Team B
*****ditto to Team A
**Girls (age U7-U18)
**Micros (U6)
**Micro-Minis (U5)
etc...

SoccerClubBoysU7TeamARoster seems like a rather kludgy long name workaround
to having a regular hierarchical structure, particularly when one might
have .  When someone views Team A, they'd only have to link to Roster to
get Team A's roster, instead of using a long name, which would clearly be
subject to all sorts of errors.   

 This sort of application also requires some sort of template system so
endusers can easily create pages for their team, roster, schedules, etc. 

 The idea and reality being, the club doesn't have enough resources to
create and maintain these hundreds of rec team web sites.  Rather, the club
would provide the structure for the rec teams to create and manage their
own team web site in a reasonably easy to use system.  

> [Original Message]
> From: Jonathan Scott Duff <duff at pobox.com>
> To: <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
> Cc: <chr at home.se>
> Date: 10/18/2004 2:38:17 PM
> Subject: [Pmwiki-users] Why heirarchy?
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:08:53PM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> > And I should also say that I'm very much in favor of hierarchical
> > content.
>
> Why? I've been reading these threads but I'm having a hard time coming
> up with a real problem that needs solving. Do you just want syntactic
> relief from ReallyLongGroupNames or what?
>
> Maybe everybody should first describe the problems that they think
> heirarchical groups would solve. Then we could examine them and factor
> out the commonalities and come up with solutions to actual problems
> rather than trying to (as it appears to me) wedge a directory-like
> structure into pmwiki.
>
> -Scott
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> Jonathan Scott Duff
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