Request: Finer control over "view all" links

[acarnwath]

I'd like to be able to hide the global "view all" link in the top bar (I am using a "defaultPattern" already), as that view is just so bogged down once all of my (and third-party) JS starts running on all of my patterns. However, I'd like to keep the "view all" links in the folders (atoms/molecules/organisms) and in the subfolders, as those are not too bogged down (yet!).

Currently ishControlsHide[views-all] :false controls all of the links - I would like more fine control over which "levels" should be hidden.

[bmuenzenmeyer]

thanks for opening this - part of the problem was me bastardizing the original implementation of ishControlsHide to have [views-all] do both.

I'd propose a new property for the top-level link.

[acarnwath]

It would be really awesome if there was some way to show it for some folders and not others. For example, we use our "view all atoms" pretty regularly, but hardly ever use "view all organisms" but we do use "view all organisms > header" (lots of pseudo patterns) regularly. Not sure quite how to handle that in a config though...

Not knowing any of the "under the hood" code, something like this could be user friendly, perhaps:

"ishControlsHide": {
    "views-all": ["*", "01-atoms/*", "02-organisms", "02-organisms/03-modals"]
}

* being the global "view all", 00-atoms/* being all subfolders in the atoms folder, but not the "view all atoms" 02-organisms being the "view all organisms", but not subfolders 02-organisms/03-modals being the "view all organisms > modal"

[bradfrost]

One proposition would be to put that fine-grained config in the optional markdown file that lives adjacent to the folder. So in 00-global.md sitting beside atoms/00-global, you could have something like:

---
title: Global Elements
viewAllLink: true | false (defaults to true)
---

[acarnwath]

It seems like this is related, on the PHP side: https://github.com/pattern-lab/patternlab-php/issues/257 though when I prepend the file with a -, like the _, it just hides from the nav altogether in the node version (haven't tested PHP to see if that's consistent).

[bmuenzenmeyer]

There's a lot of opportunity to put stuff at that level of navigation / markdown! Love it

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One proposition would be to put that fine-grained config in the optional markdown file that lives adjacent to the folder. So in 00-global.md sitting beside atoms/00-global, you could have something like:

---

title: Global Elements viewAllLink: true | false (defaults to true)

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[bmuenzenmeyer]

It seems like this is related, on the PHP side: pattern-lab/patternlab-php#257 though when I prepend the file with a -, like the _, it just hides from the nav altogether in the node version (haven't tested PHP to see if that's consistent).

I am very opposed to the filename conventions doing magic things. It messes with version control, regexes, file parsing, and is not the correct way to represent the state or presentation of a pattern or group of patterns. This is what the markdown frontmatter is for.

[bradfrost]

I am very opposed to the filename conventions doing magic things.

I concur. A lot of that stuff was put in place before Markdown/YAML support. Now that we have those hooks in there, let's take advantage of them instead.

[bmuenzenmeyer]

Labeling "spec writeup needed" to make sure we review and cull out file convention logic and replace it with markdown/frontmatter

[bradfrost]

Good plan. That stuff should be deprecated and I think that's acceptable.

[EvanLovely]

https://github.com/pattern-lab/the-spec/issues/34