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
  • Add proper subtitle and tip like all other page
  • 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
  • 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... (launches pop-up allows entering custom content-type).
  • Provide language field for each page template.
    • Combo-box with options:
      • Velocity
      • (list of others specified in startup configuration).
        
• All template pages:
  • Switch out Struts logic tags for JSTL
  • Use page model approach like other pages

Issues

None.

Design

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

• New table column webpage.outputtype which specifies MIME content-type that is generated by the template. If this is null or an empty-string then rendering system will assume text/html.

• Startup-configuration: new property rendering.templateLanguages, which lists the languages to be allowed in the Edit-Templates page.

• edit-page.jsp: Changes to meed requirements above. See screen-shots below.

• edit-pages.jsp: Changes to meet requiremets above. See screen-shots below.

• WeblogTemplateFormAction.jsp: Changes to meetin requirements above.

Edit-Pages screen-shot

NOTES:

• Name link leads to edit page, different icon used for hidden pages
• Link link opens page in pop-up window (i.e. target="_blank")
• In remove column: hover-over for lock is "Required", hover-over for remove is "Remove"

Edit-Page screen-shot

NOTES:

• If page is required we mention that in the help tip
• Link is reflect in URL and updated as user types
• If link is un-changed, then "launch" will launch it in a pop-up window
• Note up/down buttons at bottom right of text-area
• Advanced Settings is a "toggle-control" like those on Weblog-Edit page
• Content type combo-box has "Custom..." option to allow additional types

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