[Neos] Terminology: Hide vs. Show

Rasmus Skjoldan rasmus at typo3.org
Fri Dec 13 12:25:36 CET 2013


Hey again,

About this, I stumbled over Sitecore using similar terminology:
http://blog.created.dk/image.axd?picture=Sitecore%20Editor%20UI_1.jpg


Best. Rasmus

Rasmus Skjoldan
Neos UX lead / TYPO3 brand manager
rasmus at typo3.org
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On 04/12/2013, at 11.23, Rasmus Skjoldan <rasmus at typo3.org> wrote:

>>> Interesting - I've never seen a CMS use "hide" as an option that meant
>>> anything other than "unpublish." How frequently do we find users are
>>> hiding pages? What are the use cases?
>> 
>> With Neos' publishing in place I think in Neos we will find this not that often.
>> In TYPO3 CMS there are still people hiding pages, editing the content and previewing them from the backend - which will make these pages available for them while they are logged into the backend.
> 
> I haven't thought about that obvious fact before. The hide/unpublish function will naturally be used less. 
> 
> The use case of emergency retracting might be the most important one then – "get this page offline *now*". 
> 
>> Apart from that: Removing pages/nodes from the navigation is rather common (I just did a test on some of our installs and pages removed from the nav is around 25%).
> 
> Yes, I have also seen that happen a lot.
> 
> @Marli: I think this all means that we're not using these features so much for users to decide what and when to publish – since that is decided upon via the Publish menu where you push content from draft to live (or approval). It's more about a) quick, emergency retraction – and b) controlling what pages should not appear in navigation. How would we label that?
> 
> Best,
> rasmus
> 
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