[pmwiki-users] "Save as draft" capability

[Dominique Faure]

2006/2/6, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Mikael Nilsson wrote:
> > mån 2006-02-06 klockan 16:46 -0600 skrev Patrick R. Michaud:
> > >
> > > To abandon a draft, simply delete it.
> >
> > Well, what happens if you're editing a draft update of an existing page?
> >
> > Consider this:
> >
> > 1. Edit page
> > 2. Save
>
> This just edits and saves back to the original.
>
> > 3. Edit page again
> > 4. Save draft
>
> This causes the page to be saved to "SomePage-Draft"
>
> > 5. Edit page again
>
> This loads "SomePage-Draft"
>
> > 6. Delete
> > What is deleted? Page or draft?
>
> This deletes "SomePage-Draft".  The only way to delete an
> original page is to edit+save the original page when no draft
> exists.
>

May be some visual indication (in the edit form) describing current
page status could help authors by answering following questions:

* current editing is a draft?
* page already exists?

In the same mood, (Site.)PageActions may be worth providing an extra
link to view the draft version of current page if it exists.

All these suggest a new condition and perhaps some markup, no?

Dom