[Pdweb] "hiding" files (was Re: Exhibition Update)

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Steffen wrote:
> That would be o.k. Kind of similar to hiding the folders as / 
> exhibition/files/ are now. But better since members can then find the  
> documentation. They now can't find the files folder, i think, but  
> they know it's there be cause it says in the docs. Or maybe they can  

hmm, just because the "files" folder does not appear on the
navigation-tree, does not mean it cannot be found.
the first hit when searching "vol-0" (ok, who is going to do this?)
gives me ./exhibition/files/vol-0


> just use the "view content" feature? But that would be dodgy.
> 
>> one problem is, that WikiPages are outside of the standard workflow  
>> (you
>> cannot set them "private" or "published");
>> i do not see a real reason why the exhibition should be based on
>> WikiPages (there are 3 main features of WikiPages over ordinary
>> 'documents': "everybody" can edit (not a real _feature_ considered we
>> are talking about a curated exhibition), easy markup language (but you
>> can use StructuredText in ordinary documents as well) and easy subpage
>> creation (not relevant if each exhibition is restricted to one  
>> singe page)
> 
> That is true. However, the wiki pages are already not displyed in the  
> menu as all non folders or smart folders don't get into the menu.

again: just because something is not obivous does not mean it is not
visible.
webcrawlers tend to find everything, and google caches a lot.


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IOhannes