Proposal: Template Editor Enhancements

Abstract

This is a proposal to make some minor usability and functionality improvements to the UI of the Template Editor pages (edit-page.jsp and edit-pages.jsp).

Requirements

• Templates page
  • Remove Navbar, Hidden page and Edit columns
  • Add Content-Type column where removed columns were
  • Add icon to column one and make page name link to edit page
  • Show hidden pages in italics and with different icon

• Template Editor page
  • Provide content-type field for each page template.
    • Text field and combo-box with options:
      • Page (text/html)
      • CSS (text/style)
      • JavaScript (text/script)
      • Custom... (popup allows entering custom content-type).
  • Provide language field for each page template.
    • Combo-box with options:
      • Velocity (default)
      • (list of others specified in startup configuration).
  • Create advanced settings area for things most users don't use.
  • Provide up/down expand/contract buttons for template text area on Template Editor page.
  • Provide link to page generated by template
  • Provide feed-back to show users what the page URL will look like

• Switch out Struts logic tags for JSTL

Issues

None.

Design

List and describe new manager methods, Struts actions, JSP pages, macros, etc.

• Table webpage: new column outputtype which specifies MIME content-type that is generated by the template.

• Startup-configuration: new property rendering.templateLanguages

• edit-page.jsp:

• edit-pages.jsp

• WeblogTemplateFormAction.jsp

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