Feature Proposal: Easy Setting of View Template

Motivation

Setting the view template is currently not easy and error prone. You need to:

1. Go to More options
2. Click on Edit Settings
3. Very carefully type in 3 spaces star space Local VIEW_TEMPLATE = MyView
   ... where I must remember that topic MyViewTemplate must be typed as MyView

Step 3 can also be written in the topic directly, but most often we want this not to be visible or editable through topic text.

Description and Documentation

• Provide a selectable list of available view templates
• Ideally each view template has a name or short description
• Selecting the view template saves the preference variable VIEW_TEMPLATE to the topic

Examples

Choose a view template: none Client page Project page

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: ArthurClemens - 09 Mar 2008

Discussion

Have a look at AutoViewTemplatePlugin. It automatically sets the VIEW_TEMPLATE (and EDIT_TEMPLATE) according to the TWikiForm attached to it. So changing the form will automatically set the correct view given you adher to a certain naming convention.

-- MichaelDaum - 09 Mar 2008

In another sense, is this something that PreferencesPlugin should be extended to do?

-- SvenDowideit - 18 Mar 2008