[Zope3-dev] Re: issue 216

[Jim Fulton]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Roger Ineichen wrote:
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> | Can we close the issue 216 which was reported by you?
> |
> | The preview concept works in any situation.
> |
> | That's only a problem of what the index.html
> | page presents.
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> | For a project without a own presentation skin (index.html pages)
> | is the index.html page used which uses the same menu items like
> | the ZMI.
> | That's correct. This is the index.html where you see also
> | if you point the browser directly to index.html.
> |
> | I don't think there is no need for another concept like Jim
> | proposed in the issue.
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> | We really have to se what's presented in the index.html view.
> | If this index.html page is uesing the same menu like the ZMI,
> | we have to see this.
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> Roger,
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> I do not believe that he original issue has been resolved:
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> ~ - If the 'index.html' view is intended for use by the :content
> ~   manager", then it needs to use the same macro as the other CMF views,
> ~   in order to preserve the navigation.
> 
> ~ - If, on the other hand,  the 'index.html' view is intended for the
> ~   "site visitor", it should *not* appear (directly) as a tab for the
> ~    CM;  the CM should have a "preview" tab which renders the
> ~   'index.html' view inside an <iframe>.
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> ~   Likewise, the SV-centric template should strip out all the other ZMI
> ~   elemetns (the left-hand nav, the Zope3 logo, etc), which should *not*
> ~   be exposed by default to the site visitor.

I suggest that index.html is for site visitors.  I agree that it should
not be a tab (I didn't think it was).  It should also not use any ZMI
elements.

Jim

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