[Ckorik]

Originally Posted by kbs666

Yes, they would.

With each topic having only one container right now that relationship is simply an item in the record, probably. In order to allow for an unlimited number of containers, you have to create a separate table of nothing but topics and containers that has to be searched and joined to the main table every time you need to build the tree.

I can do this already if I want by creating a topic with the same name and creating a snippet with a link to the name I want to link to. The only difference between doing that and my suggestion would be:

* The program creates a random name for the shortcut topic
* The program only populates the topic with a (this would be new) snippet type that only has a reference to the original
* The program renders this special topic with the name of the Shortcut (perhaps greyed out - perhaps with a customized look?) as if it were the shortcut

And honestly it makes no sense to have a privileged container under that scheme, no matter where you find the name in the tree you should be able to open the topic directly.

Oddly I can 'open the topic directly' now by clicking on any link from a snippet - so they already make links to the topic and track them - if you alter the topic location or name - the program will correct every link to that topic. The only difference here is the ability to see that 'link' as a topic name.

The link in a snippet is not the topic - nor am I in a container for the topic - so there is nothing new about this idea other than a bit of trickery on the back end.

Without seeing the rendering engine - you have no possible way of knowing if this is possible, insanely difficult, or even trivial - neither do I. We do know they are using custom controls for some things (like the date). I'll admit that it's possible the rendering engine is off limits which would make this kind of change difficult if not impossible - it's very difficult to guess because the program is so far along that some of the fundamentals vastly increase or decrease the kind of work needed to implement this kind of thing.

I happen to agree that this is a desirable feature just that Rob is likely to have other opinions and this is why.

As much as I'd love the feature - I'd like to see all the dialogs work via keyboard (enter/esc/tab) also - it's jarring when so many useful functions are keyboard shortcuts and then you run into a dialog box that only accepts mouse input.

I'm trying very hard to hold off on a wishlist until they get the content market out and get a week off - because I'm sure the crunch they are in is enormous.