On 07/19/2014 10:14 AM, Dave wrote:
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Dave, I don't understand the use case of "navbar", and it doesn't seem
to work today anyway. I took one of my templates, "_header", and marked it
navbar-able. So my navbar menu indeed changed from:
Front Page
Weblog
Login
to
Front Page
Weblog
_header
Login
Even without logging in, "_header" is viewable to the world now. Question:
What is the use case for mass-broadcasting Velocity templates to your blog
readership? Why would anyone want that? If it's to facilitate tweaking of
templates, that can be done by keeping the template in a separate browser
tab while hitting refresh on the tab displaying the blog. And we already
have a "design: template page" menu item getting them one click away from
template modifications anyway.
The use case is "add a new page to my blog site with content defined by a
template but without me having to edit every that includes the page menu."
OK, now I see -- I thought this was a shortcut just to let people edit
their velocity templates. But here it will be an actual rendered page.
Regardless, it doesn't work anyway, it hyperlinks to this URL:
https://web-gmazza.rhcloud.com/blog/page/ which just returns a 404. So
this would need to get fixed, but I don't see this an itch that anyone will
need to scratch. Further, it seems to have lost its semantic meaning in
5.1, in the past _header would have pointed to a single template, but now
that multi-renditions are available, which one should it point to?
It should point to the page URL and if it is a dual theme, the rendition
will be chosen based on device type, mobile or not.
OK, got it.
Do you still want to retain this functionality in 5.1, even if it
presently doesn't work? Otherwise, what I can do is have
WeblogTemplate.isNavBar() hardcoded to always return false, so it won't
break anyone's templates, it just will never render, and remove isNavBar
from the data model and the UI screen.
I want to fix this before we ship 5.1.
It's all yours. :) But the column then is to remain in the table,
that's all I need to know right now.
Glen
- Dave
