Scratchpad development planning 2011-4-19

Present:

 * Edward Baker
 * Simon Rycroft
 * Ben Scott
 * Irina Brake
 * Vince Smith

Simon's suggestions

 * Improved theme
 * Improved administration
 * Workflows
 * Identity

Vince's suggestions

 * Workflow/Theme
 * Publication integration
 * Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs)
 * Services
 * Species pages
 * Mapping

Pages concept
The pages concept was talked about (as outlined in Scratchpad development planning 2011-1-10), and it was agreed that a mock-up of the idea should be created.

Taxonomy editor inline
Again, an idea that was previously discussed was raised about making the taxonomy editor integrated into the front end of the site. This is most relevant to taxon based sites.

Species pages

 * The option of adding data to a species page.
 * Adding content to a species page adds it to a report/block on a species page.
 * Tabs on a species page?
 * iSpecies content (Content source from the Internet) should have the following options:
 * Hide a specific piece of content
 * Refine the search used
 * Reset the data (show previously hidden content)
 * mySpecies content (Content sourced from the site) should have the following options:
 * Ability to alter the sort order for the content
 * Refine the search? Irina: Not necessarily refine, but give the option for higher taxa to show content of x level of children. For example on genus page have a map with specimen data of all species, or a country map with the data of all children, so that you get a distribution map for the whole genus.

Workflows
Workflows were discussed, with Irina pointing out that they're essentially just Wizards, although it should be possible to leave a workflow at any point, and return to that same point in the future. The following workflows were proposed:
 * New site creation (Similar to site settings, but only really used on a new site)
 * Taxonomy (import)
 * Pages concept
 * Importing content (and multiple image upload)
 * Create content (Not sure about this one - is a workflow really required here)
 * Complicated content types, or those that are associated with other content types (e.g. Location and Specimens)
 * Creating services
 * Site settings
 * Groups
 * Add/Edit users
 * Edit/Add content types

Admin panel/Dashboard
The popup admin panel was discussed. The idea is for a panel to appear at the top of the page (on mouse over, or click), and for this panel to contain all the options for maintaining/interacting with a site as a privileged user. It may be worth looking at the RootCandy theme for ideas regarding this. It's likely that all of the workflows will be accessed from the admin panel.