Use Case [[plugins/inline]]
Along the same lines as having a [[default_name_for_new_post]]s, an option
to include default content in a new [[plugins/inline]] post would help with
tasks like using an inline for a comment form on each new blog post.
--[[JoshTriplett]]
No, it would only help if the new blog post were being made via the form.
If you're editing it in vi, and committing, it doesn't help. :-) This is
another reason why I prefer the approach in [[discussion_page_as_blog]].
Although I don't mind getting this implemented too, for other reasons.
I see three possible designs:
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Simply use the bestlink(new_page_content) as the default content. Thomas
Schwinge emailed me an implementation of this. It has the problem that
it doesn't make sense to use the same new page template for a Discussion
page as for the page being discussed. (That's a specific case of a more
general problem.)
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Modify inline so that "template=foo" uses page foo as the template for
new posts made to the blog. This doesn't cater to every case, but
perhaps it would be enough?
-
Make pages able to embed in them a pagespec that says they are the
template when new pages are created that match that pagespec.
This is the most general solution, but depends on
[[plugin_data_storage]].
--[[Joey]]
This feature would also allow the automatic inclusion of a given template in
every new post, which could help for [[/plugins]] (automatically use the
plugin template), or for [[/bugs]] and [[todo_items|/todo]] (automatically use
a template that appends "(done)" to the title if the page links to
"done"). --[[JoshTriplett]]
This is a feature I miss a lot from MoinMoin, and is especially helpful when you maintain pages which have a regular format (eg. recipe pages). I understand that using svn would bypass this feature but I think it's worth considering anyway because:
- For any given site often it's only the admin user who makes changes via svn, everyone else uses the web
- It's remote and casual users who benefit most from having standard templates to use for new pages
- When using svn to make changes it's easier to manually provide template functionality (eg. cp recipe_template.mdwn newpage.mdwn)
All of course bearing in mind that I'm just commenting because I don't have the skills to actually make the required changes. ;-) -- [[AdamShand]]
Use Case Copyright Notes
Leaving aside the [[plugins/inline]] stuff I have a completely different
use case for this (which is also why I wrote the plugin Joey mentioned).
For a GNU-affiliated wiki we want to track copyright stuff right from
the beginning, as the wiki pages may eventually evolve into official
GNU documentation.
That's why I want to have such copyright notices
be included in every freshly created page by default (and having them
interpreted by another plugin I also emailed to Joey).
Of course this
will also only work when using web-editing, but the people using
rcs-editing (coining new terms, eh ;-)?) usually know what they're doing.
--[[tschwinge]]
