Private pages

[Paul Stovell]

Thinking about this issue (delete feature):

http://code.google.com/p/funnelweb/issues/detail?id=16

Paul Jenkins sums it up on Twitter:

@mabster except that they're still indexed by google/publically accessible if you guess the url, which can be annoying

I'm wary of implementing a "hard delete" feature though, because if you want to bring the page back to life at some point, it's gone. 

What might be better is to mark a page as being "private". When you do that, only logged in users can see the page - for everyone else it 404's. So in effect it's a delete, but you can always unhide it later. 

It would also be useful to hide any pages as you're composing them, then unhide them when you publish. 

What do you think? 

Paul

[Aaron Powell]

Yeah, have an IsDeleted flag on the entity, and if you're logged in you can get to it, otherwise it'll 404

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[Aaron Powell]

But it'd be good if you could also set it up as a 302 not a 404.

Only issue with 302 is existing comments, can you migrate them to the new page...

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[Paul Stovell]

I think our edit feature just needs to be smarter. At the moment it does this:

1. Get the page name from the TextBox
2. Find the entry by that name - if it doesn't exist, create it
3. Revise the entry and save it

It's too dumb to know that you're just renaming the page. 

1. Get the new page name from the TextBox
2. Find the entry by the OLD page name, passed from a hidden input
3. Revise the entry, assign the new page name, and save it

Paul

[Aaron Powell]

You sure, cuz I just changed the URL and now I have two identical posts...

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[Paul Stovell]

That's what I mean - you changed the URL (the name), so it thought "I can't find an old entry by that name, best create a new one".

What it *should* do, when we change the code, is to realize you just changed the name, and update the old entry name accordingly.

Paul

[Aaron Powell]

Oh, I thought that name was referring to page title.

And yeah, that wouldn't be an integrity concern as the name isn't a UID is it?

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[Paul Stovell]

I think there is a UNIQUE constraint on name, but we don't use it as the FK for anything (they have int ID's)

[Aaron Powell]

If it's just a constraint it should be fine to update the record

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