[hobbit] Page layouts

[Quinton Jansen]

I think it all depends on what your requirements are..

What I would like to know, is how people maintain their config files, with 
multiple groups editing them...  I'm currently writting a web-based frontend 
with php & postgresql, but would like to know if people have something out 
there already.

Quinton

On Friday 16 June 2006 09:56, Jeff Newman wrote:
> 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
>
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