• Do not register here on develop.twiki.org, login with your twiki.org account.
• Use View topic Item7848 for generic doc work for TWiki-6.1.1. Use View topic Item7851 for doc work on extensions that are not part of a release. More... Close
• Anything you create or change in standard webs (Main, TWiki, Sandbox etc) will be automatically reverted on every SVN update.
Does this site look broken?. Use the LitterTray web for test cases.
The default navigation scheme that is shipped with the NatSkin only works out for small to medium numbers of webs but does not work out nicely on a large set of webs and even worse on subwebs.

This is actually a known issue for quite some time and Wohali concluded that NatSkin is tailored for private use only (...).

Meredith and others stumbled over that too but till now I didn't address that in one of the other way. Actually, this is not a direct issue of the NatSkin or any other skin as they only include some topic's content into a sidebar area.

Subwebs are still not well integrated into TWiki, IMHO, and treated quite stepmotherly \footnote{Take the naming confusion as an other example: web.subweb.topic= vs. web/subweb.topic vs ...}. But as TWiki4 rolls out more people start using hierarchical webs but wonder why there's no good navigation scheme for that. The ONLY tml feature that I have found in TWiki that addresses subwebness is the $indentedname format string feature of the WEBLIST tag, a thing not usable at all for TWikiApplications. So there's no easy way to

  • get all subwebs or
  • get all sibling webs
whatsoever, which is needed to render any sort of enhanced navigation.

So this bug item is kind of a NatSkin issue but also a TWiki engine one. In the past I did not ask for extra gear to be implemented in the core to support NatSkin and I've rolled my own stuff in the NatSkinPlugin. I could do so easily now and implement an enhanced NATWEBLIST tag that does what I want. But PatternSkin and everybody should just get what is missing in general. Let's see if something happens ...

--

See also


Can you give some specific enhancement requests please? This is all rather vague.

CC

I am going to be rude and set this No Action. The report is not at all specific and cannot be actioned by anyone.

But the two links above to two almost identical proposals are very relevant enhancements.

If you want more Michael you have to raise bug items that are specific. More generic and general discussions belong to Codev.

KJL

ItemTemplate
Summary Navigation scheme does not scale up
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.MichaelDaum
Codebase

SVN Range Sat, 06 May 2006 build 10102
AppliesTo Engine
Component

Priority Enhancement
CurrentState No Action Required
WaitingFor

Checkins

TargetRelease n/a
ReleasedIn

Edit | Attach | Watch | Print version | History: r7 < r6 < r5 < r4 < r3 | Backlinks | Raw View |  Raw edit | More topic actions
Topic revision: r7 - 2007-05-28 - TWikiUserMapping_WillNorris
 
This site is powered by the TWiki collaboration platform Powered by PerlCopyright © 2008-2024 by the contributing authors. All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
Ideas, requests, problems regarding TWiki? Send feedback