Provide a "footnotes" block collecting all definitions present on a page

Created on 30 June 2023, about 1 year ago
Updated 30 July 2023, 11 months ago

Problem/Motivation

There is a need for all DFN links present on a page, possibly from multiple nodes, to be gathered and displayed as a list of "footnotes", with backlinks going back from the list to the DFN link, in order to provide more discoverability to the glossary entries, beyond what just the <a> links provide, even with tooltips, because those require user interaction.

This is actually a request from the French government client funding the D10/D9 port.

Steps to reproduce

  • create a couple of G2 entries
  • enable the G2 definition filter in the body format
  • create a couple of non-G2 nodes, with their body containing DFN links
  • navigate to the site home, seeing these nodes with their links
  • with this feature, there could be a "definitions" block in the footer or sidebar, listing and deduplicating all these links in a unique location

Proposed resolution

Currently, the Definition filter tags all links it generates with a g2-dfn-link class.

This enables JS code to handle most of the work of collecting, deduplicating, and back-and-forth linking between the links and a collecting blogk.

This would be significantly more difficult in PHP code, due to the filtering being cached and not providing any context (for better cacheability).

  • create a footnotes block
  • in this block, attach a new footnotes library
  • in that library, add JS (maybe jQuery) code collecting the links, deduplicating them, and adding the links

Remaining tasks

  • design the block
  • code the feature in JS
  • document it in help and README

User interface changes

  • a new block collecting DFN as footnotes
  • a new view display to define how footnotes are formatted
  • each DFN link has a forward link to the footnotes block and a generated ID
  • each footnote in the list has one or more (in case of duplication) links back to the DFN link

API changes

None.

Data model changes

None.

✨ Feature request
Status

Fixed

Version

1.0

Component

User interface

Created by

πŸ‡«πŸ‡·France fgm Paris, France

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