Publishing and Visibility of Subpages

[cmb]

Hello Community,

the publishing status (aka. #cmsimple remove#) and the visibility (aka. #cmsimple hide#) of pages do not affect the subpages. I wonder if that is sensible. Isn't it usually desired to unpublish resp. hide all subpages as well?

Any thoughts?

Christoph

[svasti]

Hiding a main page and not the subpages leads to funny results, automatic hiding of the subpages as well seems to be quite logical. However such a change might provoke a big howl from some users.

[cmb]

However such a change might provoke a big howl from some users.

Indeed. We should at least postpone that change to 1.7, when there'll be a beta phase.

On the other hand, that seems to be quite similar to the possibility to have "irregular page structures", e.g.

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<h1>Welcome</h1>
<h3>About us</h3>

Pagemanager can't deal with it, but there haven't been any reports that this is missing (only a few support request, where this "feature" has been used unintentionally).

[cmb]

Isn't it usually desired to unpublish resp. hide all subpages as well?

After further consideration, I think it's mandatory to do so, particularly with regard to unpublishing. Consider what happens when a page which has sub pages is unpublished: in view mode the page's children may not show up in the menu, so the admin may mistakenly think that the subpages are unpublished as well – however, they are not!