Friday, June 03, 2005

promote/demote inadequate

When working with populated structures, promote and demote simply are not powerful enough. There are two ways to enhance these commands (for G1!):

  1. Require an argument, the name of a child or wildcard for same. The command then applies to the selected children, not to the current item.
  2. Make promote/demote recursive. Exception: LedgerEntries are not automaticly promoted nor demoted.
Its important to keep the Wiki agile, which means having commands which are powerful while not taking control away from the user. And the (limited) experience we've had so far with the CompStrm-1 Wiki is that promoting/demoting is important when attempting new usage patterns. These commands need to compensate for the rather ridged structures we've set up (Cabinet, Drawer, etc.).

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