[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] HomePage Application
Hi devs, Problem ======= This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue: - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page Solution ========= At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app. This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app. Implementation =============== - A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/... Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property): {{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish. Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page. In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page. #set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}} - Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet: ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end - Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this? The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
I'd also add a link to "use a blank page" which would take the user to the wiki/wysiwyg edit mode for the home page and let him type any content there, considering that the sheet will display this content when present, as you say below.
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
What about the edit mode when content is present? Should the sheet redirect to wiki/wysiwyg edit mode when the content is not empty? But then the user needs a way to 'reset' the initial/factory behaviour, as otherwise he might not know that he needs to empty the content.
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
+1 Thanks, Marius
Thanks -Vincent
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On 30 Jun 2014 at 09:45:58, Marius Dumitru Florea (mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com(mailto:mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com)) wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
I'd also add a link to "use a blank page" which would take the user to the wiki/wysiwyg edit mode for the home page and let him type any content there, considering that the sheet will display this content when present, as you say below.
Yes.
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
What about the edit mode when content is present? Should the sheet redirect to wiki/wysiwyg edit mode when the content is not empty? But then the user needs a way to 'reset' the initial/factory behaviour, as otherwise he might not know that he needs to empty the content.
Indeed redirecting is a good idea. Two solutions for the problem you raise: - option 1: Have an Admin screen for the HomePage application (ConfigurableClass) so that the admin user can always configure the page to point to - option 2: Add a “content” field of type TextArea in HomePageClass and display it in HomePageSheet when editing in inline mode, saying that the user can either choose to display the content of any existing page or if he wants write his own content below. Remark: It would be nice to not have to create a new xproperty and instead point directly to the doc’s content in edit mode, maybe we could modify our code to support this ;) If we do this, then it’ll work too even if the user forces the wiki or WYSIWYG edit mode, which is nice. Option 2 seems to be a more “integrated” solution which also has the advantage of not requiring any redirect. Thanks -Vincent
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
+1
Thanks, Marius
Thanks -Vincent
+1, but hopefully without duplicating the doc.content field in a new xproperty. Thanks, Eduard On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:54 AM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
On 30 Jun 2014 at 09:45:58, Marius Dumitru Florea ( mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com(mailto:mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com)) wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home
page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was:
- if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
I'd also add a link to "use a blank page" which would take the user to the wiki/wysiwyg edit mode for the home page and let him type any content there, considering that the sheet will display this content when present, as you say below.
Yes.
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
What about the edit mode when content is present? Should the sheet redirect to wiki/wysiwyg edit mode when the content is not empty? But then the user needs a way to 'reset' the initial/factory behaviour, as otherwise he might not know that he needs to empty the content.
Indeed redirecting is a good idea.
Two solutions for the problem you raise: - option 1: Have an Admin screen for the HomePage application (ConfigurableClass) so that the admin user can always configure the page to point to - option 2: Add a “content” field of type TextArea in HomePageClass and display it in HomePageSheet when editing in inline mode, saying that the user can either choose to display the content of any existing page or if he wants write his own content below. Remark: It would be nice to not have to create a new xproperty and instead point directly to the doc’s content in edit mode, maybe we could modify our code to support this ;) If we do this, then it’ll work too even if the user forces the wiki or WYSIWYG edit mode, which is nice.
Option 2 seems to be a more “integrated” solution which also has the advantage of not requiring any redirect.
Thanks -Vincent
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
+1
Thanks, Marius
Thanks -Vincent
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+1 (with the option 2). Guillaume 2014-06-30 11:59 GMT+02:00 Eduard Moraru <enygma2002@gmail.com>:
+1, but hopefully without duplicating the doc.content field in a new xproperty.
Thanks, Eduard
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:54 AM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
On 30 Jun 2014 at 09:45:58, Marius Dumitru Florea ( mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com(mailto:mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com)) wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the
home
page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was:
- if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
I'd also add a link to "use a blank page" which would take the user to the wiki/wysiwyg edit mode for the home page and let him type any content there, considering that the sheet will display this content when present, as you say below.
Yes.
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
What about the edit mode when content is present? Should the sheet redirect to wiki/wysiwyg edit mode when the content is not empty? But then the user needs a way to 'reset' the initial/factory behaviour, as otherwise he might not know that he needs to empty the content.
Indeed redirecting is a good idea.
Two solutions for the problem you raise: - option 1: Have an Admin screen for the HomePage application (ConfigurableClass) so that the admin user can always configure the page to point to - option 2: Add a “content” field of type TextArea in HomePageClass and display it in HomePageSheet when editing in inline mode, saying that the user can either choose to display the content of any existing page or if he wants write his own content below. Remark: It would be nice to not have to create a new xproperty and instead point directly to the doc’s content in edit mode, maybe we could modify our code to support this ;) If we do this, then it’ll work too even if the user forces the wiki or WYSIWYG edit mode, which is nice.
Option 2 seems to be a more “integrated” solution which also has the advantage of not requiring any redirect.
Thanks -Vincent
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
+1
Thanks, Marius
Thanks -Vincent
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The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not just the Homepage. What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc. I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems. Thanks, Caty On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent
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Hi Caty, On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) (valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote:
The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not just the Homepage.
What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc.
Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: - Users will click “Edit” on the home page - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one.
I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.
Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems. Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;) In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1. Thanks -Vincent
Thanks, Caty
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent
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+1 for the theory Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to another sheet the display of the document. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
Hi Caty,
On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) (valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote:
The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not just the Homepage.
What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc.
Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: - Users will click “Edit” on the home page - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one.
I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.
Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems.
Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;)
In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1.
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks, Caty
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent
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Actually it does not fit DocumentSheetBinding since this feature is about display and not include. In any case the feature seems a lot more generic than home page so it would be a pity to limit it to that so I propose "Default Page App" instead. On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com> wrote:
+1 for the theory
Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to another sheet the display of the document.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
Hi Caty,
On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) (valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote:
The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not just the Homepage.
What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc.
Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: - Users will click “Edit” on the home page - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one.
I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.
Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems.
Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;)
In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1.
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks, Caty
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent
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Hi Thomas, I’m not sure this app is generic. I imagined it for the main home page of the wiki. The main reason is that since the main home page does an include of the dashboard app’s home page it wasn’t easy for the user to edit it. This is not the case for the spaces. When you create a space using the “Space Dashboard” template there’s no include. It generates a home page with the “{{dashboard}}” macro call inside and it’s easy to edit it by clicking the edit button (it goes in inline mode directly). Thus for me this is really only about the main webhome of the wiki. Maybe one day we’ll make the WYSIWYG editor so much more obvious to use that it won’t be needed anymore and we’ll be able to remove it. For example if the WYSIWYG editor was providing a custom UI editor for the display macro and if it made it obvious that the display macro can be edited we wouldn’t need this app I think. Thanks -Vincent On 1 Jul 2014 at 19:20:47, Thomas Mortagne (thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com(mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Actually it does not fit DocumentSheetBinding since this feature is about display and not include.
In any case the feature seems a lot more generic than home page so it would be a pity to limit it to that so I propose "Default Page App" instead.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
+1 for the theory
Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to another sheet the display of the document.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi Caty,
On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) (valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote:
The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not just the Homepage.
What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc.
Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: - Users will click “Edit” on the home page - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one.
I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.
Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems.
Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;)
In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1.
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks, Caty
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent
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Hi, ᐧ so in the end was this implemented or not? Albeit imperfect, it did improve the current situation a bit. Guillaume On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:28 PM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I’m not sure this app is generic. I imagined it for the main home page of the wiki.
The main reason is that since the main home page does an include of the dashboard app’s home page it wasn’t easy for the user to edit it.
This is not the case for the spaces. When you create a space using the “Space Dashboard” template there’s no include. It generates a home page with the “{{dashboard}}” macro call inside and it’s easy to edit it by clicking the edit button (it goes in inline mode directly).
Thus for me this is really only about the main webhome of the wiki.
Maybe one day we’ll make the WYSIWYG editor so much more obvious to use that it won’t be needed anymore and we’ll be able to remove it. For example if the WYSIWYG editor was providing a custom UI editor for the display macro and if it made it obvious that the display macro can be edited we wouldn’t need this app I think.
Thanks -Vincent
On 1 Jul 2014 at 19:20:47, Thomas Mortagne (thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com (mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Actually it does not fit DocumentSheetBinding since this feature is about display and not include.
In any case the feature seems a lot more generic than home page so it would be a pity to limit it to that so I propose "Default Page App" instead.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
+1 for the theory
Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to another sheet the display of the document.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi Caty,
On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ( valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote:
The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not just the Homepage.
What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc.
Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: - Users will click “Edit” on the home page - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one.
I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.
Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems.
Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;)
In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1.
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks, Caty
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi devs,
Problem =======
This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue:
- Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home
page
- Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Solution =========
At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the Applications Panel - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include
Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to point to any app.
This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to configure the home page so that it can point to any app.
Implementation ===============
- A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point to if you prefer) - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an example:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to
code
the part that changes the “reference” property):
{{velocity}} #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') #set ($previewenabled = 'false') The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish.
Right now it is displaying the content of the [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page.
In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table below for the page you wish to use as your new home page.
#set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', '_actions']) #set($colprops = { 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } }) #set($options = { 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' }) #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) #else ## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end #end {{/velocity}}
- Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following portion of the script in HomePageSheet:
## If there's content don't use the default app #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) $doc.content #else {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} #end
- Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any suggestion for this?
The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE.
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent
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FTR the results of the proposals (wasn’t a vote) were: - Vincent: +1 - Marius: +1 - Edy: +1 - Thomas: +1 - Guillaume: +1 - Caty: I’d say 0 since she said "I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.” Unfortunately I asked on IRC yesterday (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/IRC/xwikiArchive20140926) and it seems people changed their minds since almost everyone told me to not commit it anymore and instead move it as a contrib extension for now. I’ve tried to make my case (see IRC) but it didn’t work ;) and in the end I have respected other’s position and made it available as an extension (took me 1 hour to do that, would take another hour to move it back to platform in the future too). In any case, it’s now available at http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Home+Page+Application and you can test it (note that I’ve noticed we get a conflict when installing it, not sure why yet, I’ve pinged Thomas about it). Please play with it and let me know what we should do about it. I still find it a pity that we do nothing and continue to have a crappy situation (as proven by Caty’s usability tests). Note that in the roadmap for 6.3 Edy is going to take care of the http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1389 (Welcome block is too hard to edit) issue but this Home Page Application is actually not fixing this issue, it’s fixing: - ability to use your own content on the home page (when using any edit mode: default inline mode, the wiki editor, or the WYSIWYG editor) - ability to change the home page to display the content of another page/space Also note that there are some fine tuning to bring to it to be perfect.For example right now the LiveTable does show hidden docs and Dashboard.WebHome is hidden by default. There are various solutions, one of them being to list hidden docs in the LT. Another one is to restrict the feature and allow to point only to Application home pages or to Space home pages. Thanks -Vincent On 29 Aug 2014 at 15:02:19, Guillaume Lerouge (guillaume@xwiki.com(mailto:guillaume@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Hi, ᐧ
so in the end was this implemented or not? Albeit imperfect, it did improve the current situation a bit.
Guillaume
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:28 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I’m not sure this app is generic. I imagined it for the main home page of the wiki.
The main reason is that since the main home page does an include of the dashboard app’s home page it wasn’t easy for the user to edit it.
This is not the case for the spaces. When you create a space using the “Space Dashboard” template there’s no include. It generates a home page with the “{{dashboard}}” macro call inside and it’s easy to edit it by clicking the edit button (it goes in inline mode directly).
Thus for me this is really only about the main webhome of the wiki.
Maybe one day we’ll make the WYSIWYG editor so much more obvious to use that it won’t be needed anymore and we’ll be able to remove it. For example if the WYSIWYG editor was providing a custom UI editor for the display macro and if it made it obvious that the display macro can be edited we wouldn’t need this app I think.
Thanks -Vincent
On 1 Jul 2014 at 19:20:47, Thomas Mortagne (thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com (mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Actually it does not fit DocumentSheetBinding since this feature is about display and not include.
In any case the feature seems a lot more generic than home page so it would be a pity to limit it to that so I propose "Default Page App" instead.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
+1 for the theory
Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to another sheet the display of the document.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi Caty,
On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ( valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote:
The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not just the Homepage.
What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc.
Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: - Users will click “Edit” on the home page - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one.
I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.
Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems.
Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;)
In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1.
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks, Caty
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
> > Hi devs, > > Problem > ======= > > This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue: > > - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page > - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page > > Solution > ========= > > At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home > page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: > - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to > navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the > Applications Panel > - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include > > Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to > point to any app. > > This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to > configure the home page so that it can point to any app. > > Implementation > =============== > > - A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the > reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point > to if you prefer) > - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass > - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that > when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called > and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an > example: > > > https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/... > > Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code > the part that changes the “reference” property): > > {{velocity}} > #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') > #set ($previewenabled = 'false') > The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish. > > Right now it is displaying the content of the > [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page. > > In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table > below for the page you wish to use as your new home page. > > #set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', > '_actions']) > #set($colprops = { > 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, > 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, > 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, > '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } > }) > #set($options = { > 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' > }) > #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) > #else > ## If there's content don't use the default app > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > $doc.content > #else > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > #end > #end > {{/velocity}} > > - Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of > the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he > saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following > portion of the script in HomePageSheet: > > ## If there's content don't use the default app > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > $doc.content > #else > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > #end > > - Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the > buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be > hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide > to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the > Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to > use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any > suggestion for this? > > The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in > xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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On 27 Sep 2014 at 11:07:48, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
FTR the results of the proposals (wasn’t a vote) were: - Vincent: +1 - Marius: +1 - Edy: +1 - Thomas: +1 - Guillaume: +1 - Caty: I’d say 0 since she said "I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.”
Unfortunately I asked on IRC yesterday (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/IRC/xwikiArchive20140926) and it seems people changed their minds since almost everyone told me to not commit it anymore and instead move it as a contrib extension for now.
I’ve tried to make my case (see IRC) but it didn’t work ;) and in the end I have respected other’s position and made it available as an extension (took me 1 hour to do that, would take another hour to move it back to platform in the future too).
In any case, it’s now available at http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Home+Page+Application and you can test it (note that I’ve noticed we get a conflict when installing it, not sure why yet, I’ve pinged Thomas about it).
Please play with it and let me know what we should do about it. I still find it a pity that we do nothing and continue to have a crappy situation (as proven by Caty’s usability tests).
Note that in the roadmap for 6.3 Edy is going to take care of the http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1389 (Welcome block is too hard to edit) issue but this Home Page Application is actually not fixing this issue, it’s fixing: - ability to use your own content on the home page (when using any edit mode: default inline mode, the wiki editor, or the WYSIWYG editor) - ability to change the home page to display the content of another page/space
Also note that there are some fine tuning to bring to it to be perfect.For example right now the LiveTable does show hidden docs and
s/does/doesn’t/ -Vincent
Dashboard.WebHome is hidden by default. There are various solutions, one of them being to list hidden docs in the LT. Another one is to restrict the feature and allow to point only to Application home pages or to Space home pages.
Thanks -Vincent
On 29 Aug 2014 at 15:02:19, Guillaume Lerouge (guillaume@xwiki.com(mailto:guillaume@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Hi, ᐧ
so in the end was this implemented or not? Albeit imperfect, it did improve the current situation a bit.
Guillaume
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:28 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I’m not sure this app is generic. I imagined it for the main home page of the wiki.
The main reason is that since the main home page does an include of the dashboard app’s home page it wasn’t easy for the user to edit it.
This is not the case for the spaces. When you create a space using the “Space Dashboard” template there’s no include. It generates a home page with the “{{dashboard}}” macro call inside and it’s easy to edit it by clicking the edit button (it goes in inline mode directly).
Thus for me this is really only about the main webhome of the wiki.
Maybe one day we’ll make the WYSIWYG editor so much more obvious to use that it won’t be needed anymore and we’ll be able to remove it. For example if the WYSIWYG editor was providing a custom UI editor for the display macro and if it made it obvious that the display macro can be edited we wouldn’t need this app I think.
Thanks -Vincent
On 1 Jul 2014 at 19:20:47, Thomas Mortagne (thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com (mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Actually it does not fit DocumentSheetBinding since this feature is about display and not include.
In any case the feature seems a lot more generic than home page so it would be a pity to limit it to that so I propose "Default Page App" instead.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
+1 for the theory
Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to another sheet the display of the document.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi Caty,
On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ( valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote:
> The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can > interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). > Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not > just the Homepage. > > What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, > empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial > problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG > include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc.
Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page
Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: - Users will click “Edit” on the home page - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one.
> I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not > sure it will fix any of our problems.
Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems.
Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;)
In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1.
Thanks -Vincent
> Thanks, > Caty > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net > wrote: > > > > > Hi devs, > > > > Problem > > ======= > > > > This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue: > > > > - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page > > - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page > > > > Solution > > ========= > > > > At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home > > page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: > > - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to > > navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the > > Applications Panel > > - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include > > > > Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to > > point to any app. > > > > This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to > > configure the home page so that it can point to any app. > > > > Implementation > > =============== > > > > - A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the > > reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point > > to if you prefer) > > - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass > > - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that > > when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called > > and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an > > example: > > > > > > https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/... > > > > Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code > > the part that changes the “reference” property): > > > > {{velocity}} > > #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') > > #set ($previewenabled = 'false') > > The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish. > > > > Right now it is displaying the content of the > > [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page. > > > > In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table > > below for the page you wish to use as your new home page. > > > > #set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', > > '_actions']) > > #set($colprops = { > > 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > > 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > > 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > > 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, > > 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, > > 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, > > '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } > > }) > > #set($options = { > > 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' > > }) > > #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) > > #else > > ## If there's content don't use the default app > > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > > $doc.content > > #else > > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > > #end > > #end > > {{/velocity}} > > > > - Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of > > the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he > > saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following > > portion of the script in HomePageSheet: > > > > ## If there's content don't use the default app > > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > > $doc.content > > #else > > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > > #end > > > > - Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the > > buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be > > hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide > > to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the > > Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to > > use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any > > suggestion for this? > > > > The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in > > xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE. > > > > WDYT? > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > devs@xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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On 27 Sep 2014 at 11:12:20, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
On 27 Sep 2014 at 11:07:48, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
FTR the results of the proposals (wasn’t a vote) were: - Vincent: +1 - Marius: +1 - Edy: +1 - Thomas: +1 - Guillaume: +1 - Caty: I’d say 0 since she said "I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.”
Unfortunately I asked on IRC yesterday (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/IRC/xwikiArchive20140926) and it seems people changed their minds since almost everyone told me to not commit it anymore and instead move it as a contrib extension for now.
I’ve tried to make my case (see IRC) but it didn’t work ;) and in the end I have respected other’s position and made it available as an extension (took me 1 hour to do that, would take another hour to move it back to platform in the future too).
In any case, it’s now available at http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Home+Page+Application and you can test it (note that I’ve noticed we get a conflict when installing it, not sure why yet, I’ve pinged Thomas about it).
Please play with it and let me know what we should do about it. I still find it a pity that we do nothing and continue to have a crappy situation (as proven by Caty’s usability tests).
Note that in the roadmap for 6.3 Edy is going to take care of the http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1389 (Welcome block is too hard to edit) issue but this Home Page Application is actually not fixing this issue, it’s fixing: - ability to use your own content on the home page (when using any edit mode: default inline mode, the wiki editor, or the WYSIWYG editor) - ability to change the home page to display the content of another page/space
Forgot to mention that it also solves the Dashboard editing issue, not a small one! :) Before: - when you edit the home page you are in wysiwyg mode and you cannot edit the dashboard After: - When you click edit you have instructions and a clear link to edit the dashboard (if that’s the page pointed to) Thanks -Vincent
Also note that there are some fine tuning to bring to it to be perfect.For example right now the LiveTable does show hidden docs and
s/does/doesn’t/
-Vincent
Dashboard.WebHome is hidden by default. There are various solutions, one of them being to list hidden docs in the LT. Another one is to restrict the feature and allow to point only to Application home pages or to Space home pages.
Thanks -Vincent
On 29 Aug 2014 at 15:02:19, Guillaume Lerouge (guillaume@xwiki.com(mailto:guillaume@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Hi, ᐧ
so in the end was this implemented or not? Albeit imperfect, it did improve the current situation a bit.
Guillaume
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:28 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I’m not sure this app is generic. I imagined it for the main home page of the wiki.
The main reason is that since the main home page does an include of the dashboard app’s home page it wasn’t easy for the user to edit it.
This is not the case for the spaces. When you create a space using the “Space Dashboard” template there’s no include. It generates a home page with the “{{dashboard}}” macro call inside and it’s easy to edit it by clicking the edit button (it goes in inline mode directly).
Thus for me this is really only about the main webhome of the wiki.
Maybe one day we’ll make the WYSIWYG editor so much more obvious to use that it won’t be needed anymore and we’ll be able to remove it. For example if the WYSIWYG editor was providing a custom UI editor for the display macro and if it made it obvious that the display macro can be edited we wouldn’t need this app I think.
Thanks -Vincent
On 1 Jul 2014 at 19:20:47, Thomas Mortagne (thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com (mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Actually it does not fit DocumentSheetBinding since this feature is about display and not include.
In any case the feature seems a lot more generic than home page so it would be a pity to limit it to that so I propose "Default Page App" instead.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
+1 for the theory
Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to another sheet the display of the document.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote: > Hi Caty, > > On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ( valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote: > >> The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can >> interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). >> Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not >> just the Homepage. >> >> What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, >> empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial >> problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG >> include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc. > > Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: > - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page > - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page > > Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: > - Users will click “Edit” on the home page > - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) > - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one. > >> I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not >> sure it will fix any of our problems. > > Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems. > > Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;) > > In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1. > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> Thanks, >> Caty >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net >> wrote: >> >> > >> > Hi devs, >> > >> > Problem >> > ======= >> > >> > This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue: >> > >> > - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page >> > - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page >> > >> > Solution >> > ========= >> > >> > At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home >> > page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: >> > - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to >> > navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the >> > Applications Panel >> > - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include >> > >> > Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to >> > point to any app. >> > >> > This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to >> > configure the home page so that it can point to any app. >> > >> > Implementation >> > =============== >> > >> > - A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the >> > reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point >> > to if you prefer) >> > - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass >> > - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that >> > when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called >> > and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an >> > example: >> > >> > >> > https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/... >> > >> > Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code >> > the part that changes the “reference” property): >> > >> > {{velocity}} >> > #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') >> > #set ($previewenabled = 'false') >> > The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish. >> > >> > Right now it is displaying the content of the >> > [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page. >> > >> > In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table >> > below for the page you wish to use as your new home page. >> > >> > #set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', >> > '_actions']) >> > #set($colprops = { >> > 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, >> > 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, >> > 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, >> > 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, >> > 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, >> > 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, >> > '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } >> > }) >> > #set($options = { >> > 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' >> > }) >> > #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) >> > #else >> > ## If there's content don't use the default app >> > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) >> > $doc.content >> > #else >> > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} >> > #end >> > #end >> > {{/velocity}} >> > >> > - Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of >> > the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he >> > saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following >> > portion of the script in HomePageSheet: >> > >> > ## If there's content don't use the default app >> > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) >> > $doc.content >> > #else >> > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} >> > #end >> > >> > - Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the >> > buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be >> > hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide >> > to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the >> > Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to >> > use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any >> > suggestion for this? >> > >> > The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in >> > xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE. >> > >> > WDYT? >> > >> > Thanks >> > -Vincent >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > devs mailing list >> > devs@xwiki.org >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> devs@xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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Hi, I just tried this app locally on XE 6.2 and it works well. I'll try to have it installed on some projects to see what type of feedback we get. It's missing a French translation though... Thanks, Guillaume On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:20 AM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
On 27 Sep 2014 at 11:12:20, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net(mailto: vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
On 27 Sep 2014 at 11:07:48, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net
(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
FTR the results of the proposals (wasn’t a vote) were: - Vincent: +1 - Marius: +1 - Edy: +1 - Thomas: +1 - Guillaume: +1 - Caty: I’d say 0 since she said "I don't have a clear opinion of this
feature (it is nice to have), but not
sure it will fix any of our problems.”
Unfortunately I asked on IRC yesterday (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/IRC/xwikiArchive20140926) and it seems people changed their minds since almost everyone told me to not commit it anymore and instead move it as a contrib extension for now.
I’ve tried to make my case (see IRC) but it didn’t work ;) and in the end I have respected other’s position and made it available as an extension (took me 1 hour to do that, would take another hour to move it back to platform in the future too).
In any case, it’s now available at http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Home+Page+Application and you can test it (note that I’ve noticed we get a conflict when installing it, not sure why yet, I’ve pinged Thomas about it).
Please play with it and let me know what we should do about it. I still find it a pity that we do nothing and continue to have a crappy situation (as proven by Caty’s usability tests).
Note that in the roadmap for 6.3 Edy is going to take care of the http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1389 (Welcome block is too hard to edit) issue but this Home Page Application is actually not fixing this issue, it’s fixing: - ability to use your own content on the home page (when using any edit mode: default inline mode, the wiki editor, or the WYSIWYG editor) - ability to change the home page to display the content of another page/space
Forgot to mention that it also solves the Dashboard editing issue, not a small one! :)
Before: - when you edit the home page you are in wysiwyg mode and you cannot edit the dashboard
After: - When you click edit you have instructions and a clear link to edit the dashboard (if that’s the page pointed to)
Thanks -Vincent
Also note that there are some fine tuning to bring to it to be perfect.For example right now the LiveTable does show hidden docs and
s/does/doesn’t/
-Vincent
Dashboard.WebHome is hidden by default. There are various solutions, one of them being to list hidden docs in the LT. Another one is to restrict the feature and allow to point only to Application home pages or to Space home pages.
Thanks -Vincent
On 29 Aug 2014 at 15:02:19, Guillaume Lerouge (guillaume@xwiki.com (mailto:guillaume@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Hi, ᐧ
so in the end was this implemented or not? Albeit imperfect, it did improve the current situation a bit.
Guillaume
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:28 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I’m not sure this app is generic. I imagined it for the main home page of the wiki.
The main reason is that since the main home page does an include of the dashboard app’s home page it wasn’t easy for the user to edit it.
This is not the case for the spaces. When you create a space using the “Space Dashboard” template there’s no include. It generates a home page with the “{{dashboard}}” macro call inside and it’s easy to edit it by clicking the edit button (it goes in inline mode directly).
Thus for me this is really only about the main webhome of the wiki.
Maybe one day we’ll make the WYSIWYG editor so much more obvious to use that it won’t be needed anymore and we’ll be able to remove it. For example if the WYSIWYG editor was providing a custom UI editor for the display macro and if it made it obvious that the display macro can be edited we wouldn’t need this app I think.
Thanks -Vincent
On 1 Jul 2014 at 19:20:47, Thomas Mortagne ( thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com (mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Actually it does not fit DocumentSheetBinding since this feature is about display and not include.
In any case the feature seems a lot more generic than home page so it would be a pity to limit it to that so I propose "Default Page App" instead.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > +1 for the theory > > Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property > "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in > XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since > XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to > another sheet the display of the document. > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote: >> Hi Caty, >> >> On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ( valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote: >> >>> The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can >>> interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). >>> Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not >>> just the Homepage. >>> >>> What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, >>> empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial >>> problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG >>> include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc. >> >> Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: >> - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page >> - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page >> >> Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: >> - Users will click “Edit” on the home page >> - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) >> - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one. >> >>> I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not >>> sure it will fix any of our problems. >> >> Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems. >> >> Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;) >> >> In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>> Thanks, >>> Caty >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net >>> wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > Hi devs, >>> > >>> > Problem >>> > ======= >>> > >>> > This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue: >>> > >>> > - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page >>> > - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page >>> > >>> > Solution >>> > ========= >>> > >>> > At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home >>> > page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: >>> > - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to >>> > navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the >>> > Applications Panel >>> > - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include >>> > >>> > Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to >>> > point to any app. >>> > >>> > This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to >>> > configure the home page so that it can point to any app. >>> > >>> > Implementation >>> > =============== >>> > >>> > - A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the >>> > reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point >>> > to if you prefer) >>> > - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass >>> > - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that >>> > when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called >>> > and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an >>> > example: >>> > >>> > >>> >
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
>>> > >>> > Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code >>> > the part that changes the “reference” property): >>> > >>> > {{velocity}} >>> > #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') >>> > #set ($previewenabled = 'false') >>> > The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish. >>> > >>> > Right now it is displaying the content of the >>> > [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page. >>> > >>> > In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table >>> > below for the page you wish to use as your new home page. >>> > >>> > #set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', >>> > '_actions']) >>> > #set($colprops = { >>> > 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, >>> > 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, >>> > 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, >>> > 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, >>> > 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, >>> > 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, >>> > '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } >>> > }) >>> > #set($options = { >>> > 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' >>> > }) >>> > #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) >>> > #else >>> > ## If there's content don't use the default app >>> > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) >>> > $doc.content >>> > #else >>> > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} >>> > #end >>> > #end >>> > {{/velocity}} >>> > >>> > - Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of >>> > the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he >>> > saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following >>> > portion of the script in HomePageSheet: >>> > >>> > ## If there's content don't use the default app >>> > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) >>> > $doc.content >>> > #else >>> > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} >>> > #end >>> > >>> > - Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the >>> > buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be >>> > hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide >>> > to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the >>> > Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to >>> > use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any >>> > suggestion for this? >>> > >>> > The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in >>> > xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE. >>> > >>> > WDYT? >>> > >>> > Thanks >>> > -Vincent >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > devs mailing list >>> > devs@xwiki.org >>> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devs mailing list >>> devs@xwiki.org >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> devs@xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne
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Hi, I`ve finally caught up with this topic :) ------ So, just to throw an idea based on Thomas' suggestion for this application to be a generic one, how about if we present it as a "Page Link Application"? Basically it can be compared to a symlink, where for a location (page) you specify that it points to another location (page). At least this would work at an UI level (view mode only, to be more precise), because at a platform level (and even in edit mode - other than inline), it will still be an individual page, with its own content, objects and/or class. - To disable this "linking" we could have a button in the sheet that sets an "enabled" field to "false". Once disabled, the sheet will always redirect to the wiki/wysiwyg editor. - To re-enable it once disabled, we could inject a "Link" action in the "More actions" section that would redirect to inline edit mode. The sheet will not redirect this time (because of a request parameter) and the user will be able to choose the page to link to. -- Perhaps others have a better suggestion for the "Link" action's location or display. Would we consider such an app interesting for other use, except the Home Page? ------ Now back to Vincent's proposal, a minor thing I wanted to add was that I am not fond of depending on whether the content of the page is empty or not and I think we should just use an explicit field/switch that chooses the behavior and present that in the UI. This way the user can preserve the content of his homepage and switch back and forward with his referenced document whenever he likes. I have already looked at what Vincent has done and will see if I can add some improvements or not, but I will probably return shortly after with a vote for including it in platform, either as 1) an application (i.e. "Home Page Application") distributed with the default XE that other admins can install or not, or 2) directly as part of platform. I guess 1) would be preferred here, right? ..since otherwise it does not make much sense. Thanks, Eduard On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <guillaume@xwiki.com> wrote:
Hi,
I just tried this app locally on XE 6.2 and it works well. I'll try to have it installed on some projects to see what type of feedback we get.
It's missing a French translation though...
Thanks,
Guillaume
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:20 AM, vincent@massol.net <vincent@massol.net> wrote:
On 27 Sep 2014 at 11:12:20, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net
(mailto:
vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
On 27 Sep 2014 at 11:07:48, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net
(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
FTR the results of the proposals (wasn’t a vote) were: - Vincent: +1 - Marius: +1 - Edy: +1 - Thomas: +1 - Guillaume: +1 - Caty: I’d say 0 since she said "I don't have a clear opinion of
this feature (it is nice to have), but not
sure it will fix any of our problems.”
Unfortunately I asked on IRC yesterday (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/IRC/xwikiArchive20140926) and it seems people changed their minds since almost everyone told me to not commit it anymore and instead move it as a contrib extension for now.
I’ve tried to make my case (see IRC) but it didn’t work ;) and in the end I have respected other’s position and made it available as an extension (took me 1 hour to do that, would take another hour to move it back to platform in the future too).
In any case, it’s now available at
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Home+Page+Application
and you can test it (note that I’ve noticed we get a conflict when installing it, not sure why yet, I’ve pinged Thomas about it).
Please play with it and let me know what we should do about it. I
still find it a pity that we do nothing and continue to have a crappy situation (as proven by Caty’s usability tests).
Note that in the roadmap for 6.3 Edy is going to take care of the
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1389 (Welcome block is too hard to edit) issue but this Home Page Application is actually not fixing this issue, it’s fixing:
- ability to use your own content on the home page (when using any edit mode: default inline mode, the wiki editor, or the WYSIWYG editor) - ability to change the home page to display the content of another page/space
Forgot to mention that it also solves the Dashboard editing issue, not a small one! :)
Before: - when you edit the home page you are in wysiwyg mode and you cannot edit the dashboard
After: - When you click edit you have instructions and a clear link to edit the dashboard (if that’s the page pointed to)
Thanks -Vincent
Also note that there are some fine tuning to bring to it to be perfect.For example right now the LiveTable does show hidden docs and
s/does/doesn’t/
-Vincent
Dashboard.WebHome is hidden by default. There are various solutions, one of them being to list hidden docs in the LT. Another one is to restrict the feature and allow to point only to Application home pages or to Space home pages.
Thanks -Vincent
On 29 Aug 2014 at 15:02:19, Guillaume Lerouge (guillaume@xwiki.com (mailto:guillaume@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Hi, ᐧ
so in the end was this implemented or not? Albeit imperfect, it did improve the current situation a bit.
Guillaume
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:28 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
Hi Thomas,
I’m not sure this app is generic. I imagined it for the main home page of the wiki.
The main reason is that since the main home page does an include of the dashboard app’s home page it wasn’t easy for the user to edit it.
This is not the case for the spaces. When you create a space using the “Space Dashboard” template there’s no include. It generates a home page with the “{{dashboard}}” macro call inside and it’s easy to edit it by clicking the edit button (it goes in inline mode directly).
Thus for me this is really only about the main webhome of the wiki.
Maybe one day we’ll make the WYSIWYG editor so much more obvious to use that it won’t be needed anymore and we’ll be able to remove it. For example if the WYSIWYG editor was providing a custom UI editor for the display macro and if it made it obvious that the display macro can be edited we wouldn’t need this app I think.
Thanks -Vincent
On 1 Jul 2014 at 19:20:47, Thomas Mortagne ( thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com (mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
> Actually it does not fit DocumentSheetBinding since this feature is > about display and not include. > > In any case the feature seems a lot more generic than home page so it > would be a pity to limit it to that so I propose "Default Page App" > instead. > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Mortagne > wrote: > > +1 for the theory > > > > Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property > > "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in > > XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since > > XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to > > another sheet the display of the document. > > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote: > >> Hi Caty, > >> > >> On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ( valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote: > >> > >>> The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can > >>> interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). > >>> Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not > >>> just the Homepage. > >>> > >>> What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, > >>> empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial > >>> problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG > >>> include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc. > >> > >> Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I mentioned it solves the following 2 points: > >> - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page > >> - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page > >> > >> Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the Welcome message), I do believe it helps: > >> - Users will click “Edit” on the home page > >> - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) > >> - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including the Welcome one. > >> > >>> I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not > >>> sure it will fix any of our problems. > >> > >> Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems. > >> > >> Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;) > >> > >> In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1. > >> > >> Thanks > >> -Vincent > >> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Caty > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > > >>> > Hi devs, > >>> > > >>> > Problem > >>> > ======= > >>> > > >>> > This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue: > >>> > > >>> > - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page > >>> > - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page > >>> > > >>> > Solution > >>> > ========= > >>> > > >>> > At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home > >>> > page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: > >>> > - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to > >>> > navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the > >>> > Applications Panel > >>> > - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include > >>> > > >>> > Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to > >>> > point to any app. > >>> > > >>> > This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to > >>> > configure the home page so that it can point to any app. > >>> > > >>> > Implementation > >>> > =============== > >>> > > >>> > - A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the > >>> > reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point > >>> > to if you prefer) > >>> > - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass > >>> > - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that > >>> > when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called > >>> > and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an > >>> > example: > >>> > > >>> > > >>> >
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> >>> > > >>> > Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code > >>> > the part that changes the “reference” property): > >>> > > >>> > {{velocity}} > >>> > #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') > >>> > #set ($previewenabled = 'false') > >>> > The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish. > >>> > > >>> > Right now it is displaying the content of the > >>> > [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page. > >>> > > >>> > In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table > >>> > below for the page you wish to use as your new home page. > >>> > > >>> > #set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', > >>> > '_actions']) > >>> > #set($colprops = { > >>> > 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > >>> > 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > >>> > 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > >>> > 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, > >>> > 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, > >>> > 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, > >>> > '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } > >>> > }) > >>> > #set($options = { > >>> > 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' > >>> > }) > >>> > #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) > >>> > #else > >>> > ## If there's content don't use the default app > >>> > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > >>> > $doc.content > >>> > #else > >>> > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > >>> > #end > >>> > #end > >>> > {{/velocity}} > >>> > > >>> > - Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of > >>> > the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he > >>> > saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following > >>> > portion of the script in HomePageSheet: > >>> > > >>> > ## If there's content don't use the default app > >>> > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > >>> > $doc.content > >>> > #else > >>> > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > >>> > #end > >>> > > >>> > - Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the > >>> > buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be > >>> > hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide > >>> > to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the > >>> > Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to > >>> > use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any > >>> > suggestion for this? > >>> > > >>> > The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in > >>> > xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE. > >>> > > >>> > WDYT? > >>> > > >>> > Thanks > >>> > -Vincent > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> > devs mailing list > >>> > devs@xwiki.org > >>> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > >>> > > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> devs mailing list > >>> devs@xwiki.org > >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devs mailing list > >> devs@xwiki.org > >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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FTR Edy missed the “Simplified Home Page” thread at http://markmail.org/message/dssvydw2sjt6vz7u I’ve had a long discussion with Edy and I guess he’s going to send some mail gathering all options we have. Thanks -Vincent On 7 Oct 2014 at 12:10:19, Eduard Moraru (enygma2002@gmail.com(mailto:enygma2002@gmail.com)) wrote:
Hi,
I`ve finally caught up with this topic :)
------ So, just to throw an idea based on Thomas' suggestion for this application to be a generic one, how about if we present it as a "Page Link Application"? Basically it can be compared to a symlink, where for a location (page) you specify that it points to another location (page). At least this would work at an UI level (view mode only, to be more precise), because at a platform level (and even in edit mode - other than inline), it will still be an individual page, with its own content, objects and/or class. - To disable this "linking" we could have a button in the sheet that sets an "enabled" field to "false". Once disabled, the sheet will always redirect to the wiki/wysiwyg editor. - To re-enable it once disabled, we could inject a "Link" action in the "More actions" section that would redirect to inline edit mode. The sheet will not redirect this time (because of a request parameter) and the user will be able to choose the page to link to. -- Perhaps others have a better suggestion for the "Link" action's location or display. Would we consider such an app interesting for other use, except the Home Page? ------
Now back to Vincent's proposal, a minor thing I wanted to add was that I am not fond of depending on whether the content of the page is empty or not and I think we should just use an explicit field/switch that chooses the behavior and present that in the UI. This way the user can preserve the content of his homepage and switch back and forward with his referenced document whenever he likes.
I have already looked at what Vincent has done and will see if I can add some improvements or not, but I will probably return shortly after with a vote for including it in platform, either as 1) an application (i.e. "Home Page Application") distributed with the default XE that other admins can install or not, or 2) directly as part of platform. I guess 1) would be preferred here, right? ..since otherwise it does not make much sense.
Thanks, Eduard
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi,
I just tried this app locally on XE 6.2 and it works well. I'll try to have it installed on some projects to see what type of feedback we get.
It's missing a French translation though...
Thanks,
Guillaume
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:20 AM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
On 27 Sep 2014 at 11:12:20, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net
(mailto:
vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
On 27 Sep 2014 at 11:07:48, vincent@massol.net (vincent@massol.net
(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
FTR the results of the proposals (wasn’t a vote) were: - Vincent: +1 - Marius: +1 - Edy: +1 - Thomas: +1 - Guillaume: +1 - Caty: I’d say 0 since she said "I don't have a clear opinion of
this feature (it is nice to have), but not
sure it will fix any of our problems.”
Unfortunately I asked on IRC yesterday (see http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/IRC/xwikiArchive20140926) and it seems people changed their minds since almost everyone told me to not commit it anymore and instead move it as a contrib extension for now.
I’ve tried to make my case (see IRC) but it didn’t work ;) and in the end I have respected other’s position and made it available as an extension (took me 1 hour to do that, would take another hour to move it back to platform in the future too).
In any case, it’s now available at
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Home+Page+Application
and you can test it (note that I’ve noticed we get a conflict when installing it, not sure why yet, I’ve pinged Thomas about it).
Please play with it and let me know what we should do about it. I
still find it a pity that we do nothing and continue to have a crappy situation (as proven by Caty’s usability tests).
Note that in the roadmap for 6.3 Edy is going to take care of the
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1389 (Welcome block is too hard to edit) issue but this Home Page Application is actually not fixing this issue, it’s fixing:
- ability to use your own content on the home page (when using any edit mode: default inline mode, the wiki editor, or the WYSIWYG editor) - ability to change the home page to display the content of another page/space
Forgot to mention that it also solves the Dashboard editing issue, not a small one! :)
Before: - when you edit the home page you are in wysiwyg mode and you cannot edit the dashboard
After: - When you click edit you have instructions and a clear link to edit the dashboard (if that’s the page pointed to)
Thanks -Vincent
Also note that there are some fine tuning to bring to it to be perfect.For example right now the LiveTable does show hidden docs and
s/does/doesn’t/
-Vincent
Dashboard.WebHome is hidden by default. There are various solutions, one of them being to list hidden docs in the LT. Another one is to restrict the feature and allow to point only to Application home pages or to Space home pages.
Thanks -Vincent
On 29 Aug 2014 at 15:02:19, Guillaume Lerouge (guillaume@xwiki.com (mailto:guillaume@xwiki.com)) wrote:
Hi, ᐧ
so in the end was this implemented or not? Albeit imperfect, it did improve the current situation a bit.
Guillaume
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:28 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote:
> Hi Thomas, > > I’m not sure this app is generic. I imagined it for the main home page of > the wiki. > > The main reason is that since the main home page does an include of the > dashboard app’s home page it wasn’t easy for the user to edit it. > > This is not the case for the spaces. When you create a space using the > “Space Dashboard” template there’s no include. It generates a home page > with the “{{dashboard}}” macro call inside and it’s easy to edit it by > clicking the edit button (it goes in inline mode directly). > > Thus for me this is really only about the main webhome of the wiki. > > Maybe one day we’ll make the WYSIWYG editor so much more obvious to use > that it won’t be needed anymore and we’ll be able to remove it. For example > if the WYSIWYG editor was providing a custom UI editor for the display > macro and if it made it obvious that the display macro can be edited we > wouldn’t need this app I think. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On 1 Jul 2014 at 19:20:47, Thomas Mortagne ( thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com > (mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote: > > > Actually it does not fit DocumentSheetBinding since this feature is > > about display and not include. > > > > In any case the feature seems a lot more generic than home page so it > > would be a pity to limit it to that so I propose "Default Page App" > > instead. > > > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Thomas Mortagne > > wrote: > > > +1 for the theory > > > > > > Just thinking that instead of introducing a new class, the property > > > "optionnal" set to true (maybe the default) in > > > XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding could probably trigger the same thing since > > > XWiki.DocumentSheetBinding already have this concept for giving to > > > another sheet the display of the document. > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:36 PM, vincent@massol.net wrote: > > >> Hi Caty, > > >> > > >> On 30 Jun 2014 at 16:56:57, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) ( > valicac@gmail.com(mailto:valicac@gmail.com)) wrote: > > >> > > >>> The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how > he can > > >>> interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). > > >>> Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages > too, not > > >>> just the Homepage. > > >>> > > >>> What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage > (Dashboard, > > >>> empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial > > >>> problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of > WYSWYG > > >>> include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc. > > >> > > >> Sure it doesn’t solve everything (I never said it was!). As I > mentioned it solves the following 2 points: > > >> - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page > > >> - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page > > >> > > >> Now regarding edition of the dashboard (and thus edition of the > Welcome message), I do believe it helps: > > >> - Users will click “Edit” on the home page > > >> - They will see it actually points to Dashboard.WebHome and they’ll > see the “Edit” link (see screenshot) > > >> - When they click on the “edit” button they’ll arrive in inline edit > mode on Dashboard.WebHome and thus be able to edit all widgets, including > the Welcome one. > > >> > > >>> I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), > but not > > >>> sure it will fix any of our problems. > > >> > > >> Maybe it doesn’t fix all problems (although I think it comes close) > but I don’t understand why it wouldn’t fix “any” of our problems. > > >> > > >> Would be interesting to try out on newcomers ;) > > >> > > >> In any case I think it’s a nice progress from what we have and it’s > easy to do. I’m willing to do it for XWiki 6.2M1. > > >> > > >> Thanks > > >> -Vincent > > >> > > >>> Thanks, > > >>> Caty > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent@massol.net > > >>> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> > > > >>> > Hi devs, > > >>> > > > >>> > Problem > > >>> > ======= > > >>> > > > >>> > This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue: > > >>> > > > >>> > - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home > page > > >>> > - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page > > >>> > > > >>> > Solution > > >>> > ========= > > >>> > > > >>> > At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the > home > > >>> > page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: > > >>> > - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be > able to > > >>> > navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in > the > > >>> > Applications Panel > > >>> > - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include > > >>> > > > >>> > Said differently, I considered that the home page can be > configured to > > >>> > point to any app. > > >>> > > > >>> > This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to > > >>> > configure the home page so that it can point to any app. > > >>> > > > >>> > Implementation > > >>> > =============== > > >>> > > > >>> > - A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which > is the > > >>> > reference to the document to include from the home page (the app > to point > > >>> > to if you prefer) > > >>> > - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the > HomePage.HomePageClass > > >>> > - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome > so that > > >>> > when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is > called > > >>> > and displays some instructions about changing the home page. > Here’s an > > >>> > example: > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > >
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e/...
> > >>> > > > >>> > Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to > code > > >>> > the part that changes the “reference” property): > > >>> > > > >>> > {{velocity}} > > >>> > #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') > > >>> > #set ($previewenabled = 'false') > > >>> > The content of this home page can be the content of any page you > wish. > > >>> > > > >>> > Right now it is displaying the content of the > > >>> > [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page. > > >>> > > > >>> > In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the > table > > >>> > below for the page you wish to use as your new home page. > > >>> > > > >>> > #set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', > 'doc.author', > > >>> > '_actions']) > > >>> > #set($colprops = { > > >>> > 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > > >>> > 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' > }, > > >>> > 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > > >>> > 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, > > >>> > 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, > > >>> > 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, > > >>> > '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } > > >>> > }) > > >>> > #set($options = { > > >>> > 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' > > >>> > }) > > >>> > #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) > > >>> > #else > > >>> > ## If there's content don't use the default app > > >>> > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > > >>> > $doc.content > > >>> > #else > > >>> > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > > >>> > #end > > >>> > #end > > >>> > {{/velocity}} > > >>> > > > >>> > - Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG > mode of > > >>> > the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and > when he > > >>> > saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the > following > > >>> > portion of the script in HomePageSheet: > > >>> > > > >>> > ## If there's content don't use the default app > > >>> > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > > >>> > $doc.content > > >>> > #else > > >>> > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > > >>> > #end > > >>> > > > >>> > - Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to > configure the > > >>> > buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one > can be > > >>> > hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could > decide > > >>> > to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in > the > > >>> > Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other > option is to > > >>> > use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save > buttons. Any > > >>> > suggestion for this? > > >>> > > > >>> > The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in > > >>> > xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE. > > >>> > > > >>> > WDYT? > > >>> > > > >>> > Thanks > > >>> > -Vincent > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > _______________________________________________ > > >>> > devs mailing list > > >>> > devs@xwiki.org > > >>> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > >>> > > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> devs mailing list > > >>> devs@xwiki.org > > >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> devs mailing list > > >> devs@xwiki.org > > >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Thomas Mortagne > > > > > > > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > devs@xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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