Vocabulary Index paths & Token

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Xano - Tue, 2008-03-04 20:36

Somewhere in fall 2007 I started working on Vocabulary Index. The 1.0 version has been available for some weeks now and I have already started working on 2.0 (although a final won't be released for a few months. It's mostly brainstorming at this time).

A short explanation of what the module does: It provides term listings for the vocabularies you want them provided for. For every vocab you can specify a path at which this term listing (the 'index page') will be accessible. Some kind of a taxonomy browser/business directory module, you might say.

I was a bit curious whether people think it's a good move to implement Tokens for the 2.0 release or not. On the one hand it does make Vocabindex more flexible. After all, creating paths to index pages will become a little easier, especially when vocabulary data changes: If you're using [title] for the path, the path could automatically be updated as soon as the vocab's title is changed. On the other hand all those tokens creates a bit of a mess of the admin pages and I'm trying to make the module as user-friendly as possible as I'm a usability freak.

So, the dilemma: Token implementation or not? I'd like to hear some opinions on this before actually starting development. Do you think it's necessary or do you vote for usability? This is not only a discussion about this module, but perhaps a general discussion about usability versus flexibility as well.