[TYPO3-hci] Doktypes: Advanced and a new one

[Steffen Kamper]

"Uschi Renziehausen" <typo3news at otherone.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1194538781.27025.typo3-team-hci at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi folks,
>>>
>>>> BTW: Couldn't we merge "External Link" and "Shortcut" to "Redirect" and 
>>>> then have an link chooser like in the RTE (where you can choose 
>>>> external, internal, mailto, file) ?
>>> sounds good to me. Redirect is even a better description of what is 
>>> happening from a editors point of view.
>>>
>>>> Then we'd only have:
>>>>
>>>> * Standard (incl. Advanced)
>>>> * Redirect
>>>> * Container
>>>> * Spacer
>>>> * SysFolder
>>>> * Trash
>
> I do favour the idea of relabeling 'Shortcut' to 'Redirect', because this 
> way we avoid the confusion of shortcut in the bottom bar and the page 
> type. But the idea of getting rid of 'External Page' gets a -5 from me. 
> The shortcut and external page might have something in common for 
> professionals, but for ordinary editors? Furthermore I do find it 
> convenient to see which pages are external pages, and you even might like 
> to set a different css class external page.
>
> Just my 5 cents, Uschi

Hi Uschi,

think of setting link field in normal Forms - can be internal page (with the 
link browser) or an external url.I don't think that is difficult for 
editors.
As both (shortcut and external url) does the same - a redirect - i don't see 
need of 2 differend types.

vg  Steffen