Metadata editor idea. This is just a dirty sketch that shows how I want to make metaeditor work.

MoinMoin/templates/modify_applet.html

 {% import "forms.html" as forms %}
 {% extends theme("layout.html") %}
 
 {% set title = _("Modifying %(item_name)s", item_name=item_name) %}
 
 {% block content %}
 <h1>{{ title }}</h1>
 <div class="moin-form">
     {{ gen.form.open(form, method='post', enctype='multipart/form-data') }}
     {{ forms.render_errors(form) }}
     {% block extra_form %}{% endblock %}
     {% block data_editor %}{% endblock %}
     <dl>
         {{ forms.render_field(gen, form['data_file'], 'file') }}
     </dl>
     <pre id="moin-editor-help">{{ help }}</pre>
-    {{ gen.textarea(form['meta_text'], lang='en', dir='ltr', rows=rows_meta, cols=cols) }}
-    <br />
-    {{ forms.render_errors(form['meta_text']) }}
+    {% block meta_editor %}
+        {% set view_method = item.meta['view_method'] %}
+        {% if view_method == 'blog_entry' %}
+            {% include 'modify_meta_blog_entry.html' %}
+        {% else %}
+            {% include 'modify_meta.html' %}
+        {% endif %}
+    {% endblock %}

[ThomasJWaldmann, 2012/07/11 13:12:25]

not sure, but maybe the blog editing template should just inherit from the main
editing template one and overwrite the meta block.

the python code could render the blog editing template then, not the applet
editing template.

[spy, 2012/07/12 12:14:55]

in this case I should also choose which template to render according to
VIEW_METHOD in do_modify method  (MoinMoin/items/__init__.py Line 798). Will it
be better?

[ThomasJWaldmann, 2012/07/14 14:47:37]

see my comment there - as form classes and templates using them must correspond,
maybe such a dict where both are referred to makes more sense than having
another big if/else here.

     {{ gen.form.close() }}
 </div>
 {% endblock %}