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Overview
Critique of the current design
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The standard interface of Visual Page Editing shows two main sections. Most of the screen is occupied by a preview of the page with the well-known green bars marking the editable paragraphs. A newly introduced Actions Sidebar on the right of the screen presents all actions applicable to the currently selected item and additional info on the item or the page itself. Examples are a comprehensive page status or an overview over available page versions. The sidebar improves the overall visibility of actions in that it introduces a single location to look for actions. It is flexible and can be extended by modules wishing to add complementary functions or data to page editing. The sidebar is similar in appearance and behavior as the Actions Sidebar used in AdminCentral.
The new visual page editing is targeting mouse input and has been crafted with touch devices in mind. While you can use this interface with a keyboard, Page Structure Editing has been specifically optimized for keyboard input and thus should be the preferred way to edit a page using keys only.
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Concepts
Area editing
Visual page editing in Magnolia 5 keeps the edit bars introduced in earlier versions, but solves the cloud of bars by introducing Area Editing. The areas of a web page as defined by the web designer and introduced in Magnolia with STK templating are an excellent starting point to reduce the number of edit bars visible at any one time.
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Magnolia 5 adds an Actions Sidebar to the page editing interface. It
- shows all applicable actions available to the logged-in user and defined on the currently selected paragraph or area, or on the page itself. This includes access to the clipboard and undo/redo.
- is capable of showing additional information on the currently selected element or the page itself
- shows notifications and provides access to the list of system messages
- contains a small box configurable by the user allowing to quickly identify the Magnolia instance
The sidebar offers a simple toggle control to switch between the page preview and the editing interface. Additional view options allow to customize what's shown and what's not. The top-most element of the sidebar visually takes up a theme used in other interface layers and acts as a place to show notifications. In the future, it will also host additional controls used to navigate layers. It also offers a close button to leave page editing.
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