Re: [xwiki-users] Brainstorming XWiki Favorites
Drool, I'll be watching this string and looking for that app :) Philip Wright Reports Analyst ACS: BPS Office: 503-907-1501 ext 3714 Cell: 503-891-4920 Philip.wright@acs-inc.com Affiliated Computer Services, Inc Affiliated Computer Services, Inc (ACS) Proprietary and Confidential Information This document (or any part thereof) may not be disseminated outside of ACS in either electronic or physical form without specific authorization of the office of the ACS Chief Information Security Officer. The information included in this document represents no commitment by ACS to any other party. The policies and standards described do not consider any country law or other directive outside of the United States. P Please consider the environment before printing this email -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@xwiki.org [mailto:users-bounces@xwiki.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lerouge Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:39 PM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Brainstorming XWiki Favorites By the way, 2 additional ideas : - You could add a static list property (with [1,2,3,4,5] as allowed values) to rank the importance / interest of favorites and display them according to their ranking on the page (thru a hql sort query) - Don't forget to add your application on http://code.xwiki.org/ once a first working version is out ;-) Guillaume On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Mike Oliver <moliver@corenttech.com> wrote:
Good ideas, I followed the ToDo example and created a Favorites space to store the documents but agree better to store them by user. I guess I can get it working in the ToDo model first and then move the location of the documents and change the filter accordingly.
Our messages passed on the wires where Posted my first pass.
Ollie
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Indeed. I'd still advise looking at how the watchlist feature is implemented since it somehow manages to store user preferences in their profiles and you're going to need that feature in your implementation I guess...
Not sure whether there's been any recent discussion on creating easy-to)use user profiles extension points - though this kind of use cases (as well
as
a bunch of others) show they're needed. I think there is a way to access them right now without changing the UserClassSheet (maybe by adding new kind of objects to user profile pages...)
Re your implementation, I'd advise having the list of favorited pages stored in one (or many) objects attached to the user profile page of the current user and writing a panel taking the currently logged user UserName as a parameter, retrieving the data from those favorite objects stored on his user page and displaying their values in the panel ...
Guillaume
Ollie
Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
Hi Mike,
Can I filter on the user that created the record of the favorites
class?
Sure... But why don't you have your users use the Watchlist feature that basically already is XWiki's favorites system for individual users ?
Cf http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/WatchlistApplicat ion , it's bundled with all recent versions of XWiki Enterprise AFAIR ...
You might still want to add that description field though...
Guillaume
Ollie
Wright, Philip wrote:
Idea is to allow the user to create the description? If so sounds
like
a
GREAT idea.
Philip Wright
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4 years later... I searched the XWiki Extensions, but did not find any "Favorites" Extension of any kind. Did anything got developed? -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Brainstorming-XWiki-Favorites-tp510281p758... Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi Hamster, On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:27 AM, Hamster wrote:
4 years later...
I searched the XWiki Extensions, but did not find any "Favorites" Extension of any kind.
Did anything got developed?
I don't think so. However: * The Watchlist application can almost be used as a Favorite application. Personally I'd also be in favor of improving the watchlist app so that you could set the notification period on a per-item basis (with a default period of course) and add a "no notification" option. We would probably still need a Favorite app but at least it would allow more use cases including a poor-man's favorite app * It's relatively easy to create an app for Favorites. The only tricky part is to add a "Add as Favorite" menu entry but that'll become very simple soon with the UI Extension feature that we're currently adding in XWiki 4.2. Actually with this UI Extension you would even be able to add a new Tab in your user profile for listing all your favorites for example. If you're interested here's how I would code it: * Create a FavoriteClass XClass * Register a new menu entry (in an existing vm file ATM) to add a new favorite * When the user clicks the menu entry, create a XObject of type FavoriteClass and add it to the current user document * Modify the User Profile Sheet to add a new Favorite tab and create a page to list all your favorites; it would use a Livetable to display all your favorites by getting all FavoriteClass XObjects for the current user * Add a new Menu entry in the Profile menu in the top right corner to directly go to your favorites page (again done currently by modifying a vm file) Hope it helps, -Vincent
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