Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Gildas PERROT wrote:

Currently the navigation scheme in WWSympa has been designed empirically,
and therefore might be unperfect. 
Navigation history is stored in hidden variables (previous_list / previous
action) carried in some pages only.

A major improvement in navigation could be provided by the use of cookies ;
it would provide :
        1/ easier navigation scheme management
        2/ Sympa could proivide an history to the User.
           Example : Home > Which > Info 'mylist' > Admin 'mylist' > Review 
'mylist'

> At many places, it is difficult to come back to the previous form in
> WWSympa. Example : when I am personnalising the welcome template and I want
> to do the same job for removed template, I need to click on "Admin" button
> then "Personnalize" button to access to the scrolling menu of templates to
> edit.

We made the choice of bringing the owner back to the current template edition.
But a better choice might be to either
        * come back to the main "customization" page
or
        * come back to the admin page

> Other example, when you click in "Preferences" after being in the list
> "Admin", to come back to that "Admin", you need to come back by the "List of
> lists" or "My subscriptions".

I had a try, it works fine.

> A "Previous" link, if possible to implement, would be interesting, wouldn't
> it ?

Why not, but we miss the information sometimes ; we also miss parameters other
than 'action' and 'list'.

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités