Automatic page file name
Jason Airlie
I would like Wiki.js to automatically generate a page filename based on the page title. Most of my users don't care about the page name, but care most about the page location / path and the page title.
I'd like there to be some consistency in the page naming (spaces / dash / underscore, caps, max length) and an auto generated name, would do that especially if I can block users from changing from the auto page name.
Most of all I want to minimize the effort required to get info into the wiki. Getting people to adopt and start using a wiki can be difficult and making it as easy as possible is important.
Wiki.js used to suggest a page name based on the title but changed, I suspect because of a under the hood change in the page creation process. If the wiki needs to have a file to save to before we can do things like set a title, perhaps an auto generated uuid style filename as a temporary until the title is set and the page can then be auto renamed? The user would never have to see or know about the temporary file name.
Fifteen 15 Studios
I feel like when creating a new page it should ask for the name of the page and the location of the page, and then format the last part of the path based on the name.
For example, if my page name is named "New Page" and the location is "/Pages" then the generated path should be "/Pages/New-Page"
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Thomas Nilefalk
Yes, I've always felt that wikis have to many "names" for a page, its title, the path and the filename, at least that's one too many. "Hiding" one of them would be a great simplification.