[FM Discuss] Bug with chapter titles
adam
adam at xs4all.nl
Fri Dec 17 05:16:16 PST 2010
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 13:13 +0000, Michael McAndrew wrote:
> I know what you are saying. Booki is the editing platform, where we
> edit books. It's not the reading platform where we read them.
>
> I guess the confusion crept in because
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm is still being fed from the old
> editing platform (and hence still has the old URLs in).
>
> Following form that (sorry if you have answered these questions
> already :) ...
>
> * Can we publish to http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm from booki at
> the moment?
not yet. next week it will be working. early jan i hope maintainers can
do it, at the moment its just me or john
>
> * Agree that it is confusing to have two read only versions.
>
> Am I right in saying that 2 is a read only version of 'trunk' and 3 is
> the latest stable release.
yes :)
> A read only version of trunk is useful when you are editing to see
> what your changes will look like before publishing, but perhaps this
> could be acheived by just hitting a preview / publish button and
> getting a copy located in a preview-like URL, kind of like a release
> candidate? So the workflow would be to go from TOC to edit without a
> view stage between?
can you check the editor, we just added a 'view' button...would this do
the trick? (adding print capabilities to that view now also)
adam
>
> I could live without 2, but it is kind of useful. how about styling 2
> so it is obviously 'unpublished'?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:11 PM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> ok...so i think we might have a issue here with confusion over
> the 'read
> only' version of the manual in the editing section
> (booki.flossmanuals.net) AND the 'read' version of the manual
> located
> here:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net
>
> as i am seeing it...we do need to resolve the issue of
> duplicate url
> name for chapters...however, i am also considering the
> possibility to
> turn off the 'read only' display in booki.flossmanuals.net
>
> for example...
>
> 1. we have the edit interface for civicrm:
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/civicrm/edit/
>
> 2. and then the 'read only' version:
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/civicrm/
>
>
> 3. and then the manual for users:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm
>
>
> My feeling is that we have a big potential problem with people
> confusing
> 2+3 ie. thinking that option 2 *is* option 3
>
> My feeling that this is happening is enhanced when I see some
> bugs being
> tracked which see to also share this confusion:
> http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/ticket/326
>
> So...while we need to fix the duplicate url issue, i think we
> can also
> shut down option 2 since the edit interface now also has a
> 'view' button
> so you can read chapters without needing to edit them
>
> i know this is a lot to digest but if anyone can follow this
> and comment
> on it i would appreciate any thoughts on this
>
> adam
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 00:29 +0000, Michael McAndrew wrote:
> > sooo... you want to switch between full chapter name
> and
> > shorther url
> > name in editor (in TOC)? is that what you want? that
> is so
> > crazy that
> > it might just work! :)
> >
> > I love it when a plan comes together. yeah, the more i
> think about
> > it, the more i like the section/chapter hierarchy for the
> civicrm
> > book.
> >
> > so we would have
> >
> > fundraising/about
> > fundraising/planning
> > fundraising/configuring
> > membership/about
> > membership/planning
> > membership/configuring
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > that looks pretty to me (i know, i'm sick).
> >
> > imagine this would look really ugly in other situations
> though, so if
> > we could have the flexibilidad that would be awesome :)
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Aleksandar Erkalovic
> > <aerkalov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Michael McAndrew
> > <michaelmcandrew at thirdsectordesign.org> wrote:
> > > one problem - is this reported yet? we get a
> predictable
> > error in civicrm
> > > because we repeat a lot of chapter titles on
> purpose to
> > guide people through
> > > the book. for example.
> > >
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/civicrm/_v/1.0/planning/
> >
> >
> > yes... aware of this. did not implement anything
> before
> > because i knew
> > people will get broken links in books. was thinking
> of maybe
> > implementing intelligent rename tool... also, it
> kind of
> > waited for
> > permissions. we do have permissions now (at least in
> code), so
> > i guess
> > i could implement chapter url_name rename also.
> >
> > > my ideal world enhancement/solution to this would
> be to have
> > the option of
> > > overriding chapters names on an adhoc basis and to
> be able
> > to switch between
> > > a "section/chapter" and just plain old "chapter"
> url schema
> > for the default
> > > chapter titles.
> > >
> > > thought it might be worth discussing here a bit?
> >
> >
> > sooo... you want to switch between full chapter name
> and
> > shorther url
> > name in editor (in TOC)? is that what you want? that
> is so
> > crazy that
> > it might just work! :)
> >
> >
> > aco
> >
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