1427888 - Change TOC in Edit Page Title and Properties section from dropdown to checkmark

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
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The "TOC" field, for setting the heading levels to include in the TOC, is now superfluous and should be removed.

What problems would this solve?
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It simplifies the UI for contributors and reduces the amount of space the metadata section of the page occupies when expanded.

Who would use this?
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Contributors.

What would users see?
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More text, less unused fields.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Users wouldn't waste time with a field we don't currently use.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[John Whitlock [:jwhitlock]]

The behavior was changed in mozilla/kuma#4510 as part of bug 1414107. Currently when editing a document with the proper permissions, you can change the TOC field with a dropdown selection. If you pick "No table of contents", then the sticky table of contents is omitted. If you pick other options (All Levels, H2 and Higher, etc.), then the TOC appears with H2-level titles.

I think we're keeping the new table of contents, so the editor selection should be a checkmark "Show Table of Contents". If checked, the H2-level Table of contents should be shown. If unchecked, the Table of Contents should be omitted. This could be a UI-only change, or we could migrate the data model to a Boolean as well.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.