Results: everyone agreed and I’ve now added it to http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ApplicationDevelopmentBestPrac... So we now need to be careful to implement this and when it’s not done we can point to that best practice :) Thanks -Vincent On 2 Apr 2014 at 09:36:45, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
Hi devs,
On http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ApplicationDevelopmentBestPrac... we list some app dev best practices. I’m proposing to add one more bullet point which is that apps bundle one or several (but at least one) Dashboard Gadget (technically a Macro) so that users can easily add a view of the app on the home page (in their dashboard).
For example: * FAQ app already provides a {{faq}} gadget to list all entries for a given FAQ app * Index app already provides a {{document}} gadget to list all documents matching some criteria * Blog app doesn’t currently provide such a gadget (it provides a velocity macro but that’s not a gadget) * Forum app should provide a {{forums}} gadget too to list all forums and a {{forum}} one to list entries from a given forum * etc
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent