[Bf-docboard] Navigation Plugin

[a hettinger]

My thoughts were to put enough management functionality into header
(if you were logged in) that those editing wouldn't even notice the
tags (once we did the initial work). I was thinking about something to
the effect of "<nav book="Manual" next="V" prev="III" />" and having
the code auto adjust it as necessary.

If adding tables to the DB isn't a problem (my thoughts had kinda
assumed it was for some irrational reason),  then we could make the DB
handle it, but my first instinct is "that's overkill."


On 5/9/06, Ewout Fernhout <chocolade at extrapuur.nl> wrote:
> > Do we favor the "rule-based" approch or a "tag-based" approch?
>
> I think I the tag-based approach works best. Having to add the tags to
> all the existing pages is trivial IMO.
>
> The problem to be solved is how to define the order in the tags
> without having to change all the other pages/tags. Example: you have 5
> pages in a sub-section, and you want to insert a new page between 2 &
> 3. If the tags contain the 'ordernumbers', you would have 2 pages "3".
> You would then have to renumber 3, 4 & 5.
> You could do it chain-wise, you define that the new page comes after
> 'page 2' (some kind of indicator), then you'd only have to change the
> old 3.
>
> None of these are user-friendly, so ideally there would be a
> management tool that sets the order of the pages. This is stores it in
> the db, and for the navigation it reads this db to check what pages
> come before and after.
>
> The tag would look like this (format could be completely different of
> course! I don't know what's easy for you):
> <navigation book="Manual" part="IV"/>
>
> If we could avoid tags and make it an editing option that would be
> even better. With drop down menus with existing books and parts and
> an "add new..." at the bottom (a bit like the "Apply label" menu in
> GMail) >> two of those under the edit field! If that's not too hard, I
> would prefer this over all the other options.
>
> I'm just thinking aloud, but I hope this helps you in any way (and I
> hope this invites others for discussion)
>
> Ewout
>
> p.s. What you said about learning code by doing, in dutch we have a
> saying "the first house you build is for your enemy, the second is for
> your friend, and the third is for yourself" >> you need to do it to
> discover how to do it!
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