Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote:
I agree. The latest version that I use (2.6.4) has a (C) menu button that allows you to add Categories to your page, bringing up a dialog box and showing existing categories to choose from or to create a new one. Nice feature since I always hate, while editing in wikitext, to have to start up a second browser just to go see what categories are available. I agree templates may be challenging, but that would be another brick to lay another day.
Yeah we love being able to select pages and images via the associated popups for those also-- just start typing keywords and a list of matches is generated. We had to increase the list size to 100 though, 10 was way too short.
With respect to templates, FCKeditor has a little button for opening up a list of templates from which a user can select. It supports a title, description, and snapshot image via an XML configuration. We are going to be reworking this to have it support Wiki templates since currently it only supports HTML. Probably we'll ditch the XML file though and use a wiki page to configure entries so it can be done by bureaucrats :)
Anyways, a well integrated WYSIWYG is far less cumbersome for many of these routines tasks than using wiki code and multiple windows to view what is available. Although, there's nothing really stopping the WikiCode editor from having some of this functionality in it's buttons also instead of them just outputing the empty WikiCode for a link, or file.
Cheers, Rob.