[Zope3-dev] IMPORTANT RFC: Through the Web Site Development

[Barry Pederson]

Jim Fulton wrote:

>> ------------
>> Any folder can be changed into a site (or changed from a site back to 
>> an ordinary folder). To change an ordinary folder into a site, just 
>> select the "Create Site" action in the folder. When a folder is 
>> changed to a site, the "Create Site" link becomes a "Manage Site" link.
>> -------------
> 
>> Also, there's no mechanism described for how you'd change a site back 
>> to an ordinary folder.
> 
> 
> That's because there is no such mechanism. Do you think we need one? :)


The first sentence of that bit I quoted above from the wiki says it can 
be changed back, so it's your idea, not mine :)

Even so, I definitely think a mechanism like that would be good  - the 
first time I ran across the current equivalent and clicked on it to see 
what would happen, I though "crap...how do I undo that", and of course 
there wasn't a way.  Kind of a bad user-experience there.



>> ------------
>>     Folder foo is a:
>>
>>       [x]  plain folder
>>       [ ]  folder with a site manager
>>
>>     <<save changes>>
>> ------------
> 
> I think that this is too lightweight.

Maybe the button labels I gave as an example are lightweight, but they 
could be expanded on, or more text placed in this tab explaining what it 
all means.  And it's an obvious place to come back to if you change your 
mind.

If anything, I think two or three words in a menu like "Create Site" or 
"Convert to Site" are far more lightweight.  Personally I wouldn't think 
I was embarking on a major non-undoable function just by clicking on 
something that simple-looking - which is what happens now and in the 
proposal.

     Barry