Hi Sarthak, > On 20 Mar 2017, at 20:00, Sarthak Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Vincent, > > I have come up with an idea that: > 1. I will make an extension that will link to the Glossary Page.
The extension *is* the Glossary app. There’s no glossary page in XWiki ATM. The point of this project is to create this app/extension. > 2. The idea would be whenever a user will select a list of words in the page, > then a button will appear just above the text. Ok. We could also introduce a shortcut key as we have for annotations (ctrl+M). I guess you’re referring to creating glossary entries right? Because for viewing the the Rendering Transformation would simply create standard links IMO. > 3. On clicking that button a dialog box will appear on the bottom right of > the screen that will specify some options as follows: I think it should appear just below the word(s) you selected. > (i)For a user: (a) "Word name"(one word at a time. Next word could be > accessed by clicking an another button) > (b) Short description of the word, with a link for > 'Read More'. Clicking on 'Read more' will direct the user to the > glossary page. I think it’s enough to do display that on hover without clicking. Clicking would go to the glossary page. > (ii) For an Admin: (a) The JavaScript will scan each and every word of > the selected text, and will display if a word in the selected > text is in the Glossary Page or not(by the use > different color for each word that is 'in' and that is 'not in' > the glossary page. That’s one way of doing it indeed. Another way (possibly better or not - We need to list the pros and cons of each approach) is to use a Rendering Transformation since it’s meant for that. I don’t understand why only admins would see glossary terms on the page. IMO everyone should see them. > (b) Add the word to the glossary page/ Make > changes(which will direct the admin to the glossary page and there > he could add new entries or make changes to the > original one). > 4. The glossary page will simply be created with 'Create Page' provided in > X-wiki I suppose. I need to think of interface :P. IMO there should be 2 ways: 1) same mechanism as for annotations 2) on the glossary app home page with a form It would be nice if you could create a design page on design.xwiki.org so that we can record all decisions that we take. Thanks -Vincent > Please suggest some improvement or additional information that I should > specify before writing a proposal. > I also need to think how my timeline in my proposal will be divided :P > > Thanks :) > Sarthak Gupta
