[Zope-PTK] what happened to the wizards?

[Andrew Sawyers]

I did this for a test site I was messing around with; I'll need to restep
through the process, I'll try to post this back to the list later today.  It
wasn't too dificult, hopefully I can get something helpful for you.
Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: zope-ptk-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-ptk-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
Of Jens Vagelpohl
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 7:52 AM
To: Lucas Hofman
Cc: zope-ptk@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] what happened to the wizards?


i'm not sure if there is a way to retrofit the wizard product, i've never
tried it...

unfortunately, sending people to the edit screen first by specifying that as
the default view in the Types Tool (<portal>/portal_types) will result in an
error right now because the edit form is expecting an attribute that is set
on the metadata form. this is highly bogus and i hope we'll get that fixed
today.

jens



on 2/16/01 1:57, Lucas Hofman at lucas.hofman@oslo.pgs.com wrote:

> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>
>> lucas,
>>
>> the wizards (and with it the need to import monolithic .zexp files) are
>> thankfully gone. what you see in your portal (and the dogbowl) is the new
>> system at work.
>>
>> i think the reasoning behind dropping people into the metadata screen
>> instead of the content edit screen is because the more metadata you
provide
>> the easier it will be to search for your content item.
>>
>> jens
>>
> Jens,
>
> This is -from a usability point of view- a step in the wrong direction.
> I see the point that the installation gets more robust, and I am very
> glad for that.
>
> However, the wizard where there for a good reason: to guide the user
> through the creation of potentially complex content. The Wizard product
> provided some standard functionality in multi page form input so that
> the site builder could focus on the pages themselves. I made a few
> wizards in a community site based on PTK 0.7. This site now has to be
> ported to 1.0, and I wonder how to tackle this.
>
> For most user of a site the distinction between metadata and content is
> irrelevant. In most sites the metadata tags used will be different for
> different types of content. The add and edit screens should reflect
> this.
>
> I guess we will end up with dumping people in the edit screen of the
> particular content type. There they can enter both content and the
> relevant metadata tags. Or is there an easy way to 'retrofit' the Wizard
> product?
>
> Regards, Lucas


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