Page layouts

[Jeff Newman]

All,

First off, I don't exactly know where Im going with this message, Im
just hoping a bunch of people out there go "Ya, I know exactly what
you mean!" haha.

Ok, so there are tons of different ways people out there layout their
hobbit "presentation" to themselves, clients, etc... Just from reading
the mailing list for the past 6 months, I've seen so many different
ways:

* Normal hobbit
* No prop pred stuff
* Alternate pagesets
* Multiple bbdisplays
* Multiple instances
* Password protected stuff
* Different ways of labeling thing via NET
etc...

I often wonder "Am I doing this right? Is there a better way to
present all this stuff? I don't even use NKview (or critical view in
the new version) Should I be"
Most importantly
"When I convert all of operations to hobbit, I will have a hobbit
server in NY, and one where I am, and im sure they will want different
views/pages etc... and I will want to look at their stuff, but not get
paged on it etc. etc. etc., what am I going to do then?"

Right now, Im saving all the hobbit mails that deal specifically with
page layout in the hopes that in the future, I will be able to look at
them all and try and extract from all the emails the different ways of
doing things.

The man pages are very good, if you know what your looking for. There
are things you can do though that are more what you want, you just
don't see them because your not looking for them.

To that end, (and Im not sure exactly how this could be accomplished)
Im wondering if there is some way to show everyone the different
options. Almost
like a web page that has something like:

Scenerio #1: You are the admin, and want to see every host on one
page, and you have users that need to only see the first 10 hosts, and
users that need to see the second 10 hosts, and users that need to see
the first 20. Here are the different ways this could be setup.
         Link 1 to a view of the page with the various config options
you would need
         Link 2 to a view of the page done differently with the
various config options
         etc...

Scenerio #2 <next scenerio>
etc...

Thats just one idea. I just think there are so many ways of doing things
with this, and I may not even know of one, but when I saw it I would
say "YA! Thats
exactly what I want mine to look like" and I could make it happen.

Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way though :-D

Anyway, just thought I would throw this out to the list and see what people
thought. Sometimes you just need to push a ball down a hill to get it
rolling :-)

Thanks,
jeff