[pmwiki-users] Input recipe

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-06-24  01:36 PM -0400, Martin Fick is rumored to have said:
> > 2) One-shot forms ("administrative" ones). Syntax is of secondary
> > importance, giving access to as many useful capabilities of HTML as
> > possible is more relevant.
>
>   I'm still not buying this hardline admin/user split.

Martin

Perhaps your audience is different, but some of my users even find normal 
markup (* for bullet, etc.) too daunting. They will *never* want to create 
forms, but they are glad to fill them in.

One group I am working with is talking about using a wiki instead of a 
database/form solution for keeping track of installed equipment in various 
plants around the world. They feel that a form-based solution would be too 
rigid. They really like the flexibility of organizing pages themselves. 
Pages can contain all kinds of information - serial numbers, software 
revision levels, planned upgrades, location maps, installation bottlenecks, 
local problems, and so on. They also want to be able to enter narrative 
information for things like trip reports, action plans, and budgets.

I don't doubt that many of these items could be handled by forms, but the 
most the users are really looking for is a new page template, and that 
facility already exists in the cookbook.


Neil

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