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Not sure if anyone wants to tackle a change like this when you're already at v.3, and maybe it's just me  but...

I think the term "Profile" is overloaded. It refers to either 

1. A CiviCRM user profile, i.e. a particular record about a person, or
2. A way to "combine groups of fields as input forms, contact display pages, and search/listings pages" (from the CiviCRM wiki)

When implementing (1), the URLs include "../profile/..".

Unfortunately in the Profile documentation when discussing (2) these links used in (1) are all over the place. I find this very confusing!

I'm not suggesting this purely as a documentation issue, but also as an underlying terminology issue. I realize you'd need to change the CiviCRM pages and code.

May I suggest as a starting point for discussion that you take a look at some Java terminology. Maybe "facelet" or "tile" could substitute for usage (2)? (Disclaimer:  I'm not a user of facelets or tiles, I just remember hearing them mentioned and they sounded similar.)


See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java:_View_Technologies_and_Frameworks#Tiles

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-facelets/

- Harry