templates for version 2

[scholl]

hi,

i really like you're work! short question for v2 is there a time plan when templates are available?
this was a really helpful feature in v1 :)

BR
Tobi

[leenooks]

Howdy, I'm actually thinking about the templates next.

My initial plan was that templates would work slightly differently in v2. In v1, templates enforced an entry to meet the requirement of the template - and thus would remove attributes that were not referenced.

In v2, I'm thinking of using templates to make attributes available around common usage, thus:

• An entry may have more than 1 template, eg: posixAccount for for unix account management, and maybe inetLocalMailRecipient, for mail management.
• Templates will still guide default values as before (and perhaps enforce attribute values)

I'm thinking of how the UI will make them available, selectable and apparent (on an existing entries). They would also be configurable using JSON instead of XML (so v1 templates could not work with v2).

I'm keen to hear other thoughts and suggestions.

[scholl]

sounds great to me, from my side a issue from v1 was that when an entry was created and the "default" view was disabled after creation of an entry not the template was showen but the default view with to many attributes. This was confusing for some admins. Only after a reload there was the template showen.