[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Notifications : Add "in-context" switches

*TL;DR* - Add a button in each page that will allow you to subscribe to all events that happens to that page. - When you subscribe to a page with this "in-context" bell, it must not affect your other preferences regarding notifications. *Full Post* Hello developers, With Clément Aubin, we are implementing new features in the Notifications Application in order to be able to remove the Watchlist Application. *Status* Currently, a user can subscribe to different kinds of events (ex: "update", "comment", "blog published", etc...). Recently, we have also added the ability to restrict on which locations we are interested in, for each kind of events. For example, we are now able to say, "for the *update* event, show me notifications only about the wiki ABC and for the *blog post* event, show me notifications only about the space XYZ". If you have no restriction (a.k.a "filters") on an event type, then you receive notifications for every event matching the event type in the wiki, no matter the location of the entity it concerns. *Objectives* In the Watchlist Application, we had 3 switches on the top menu that was displayed on every page, and these switches were "watch this wiki / watch this space / watch this page". That would be great if we could have the same for the notifications. *Proposal* - Add the ability to subscribe to all events that happen in a given location, no matter their type (≈ what the watchlist does). - In each page, add a button to subscribe to the current location: https://pasteboard.co/GAqEi6M.png (thanks Caty for the mockup) - Problem: if you previously had no restriction, you suddenly add a new one that will prevent you to receive any notifications concerning the other locations. A bit like the rights module: adding a right to someone at some level will dismiss rights for all other people. I guess we all agree it's a problem on the User Experience point of view. - Proposition: the restriction added by the "in-context" button should be *inactive if there is no other restriction enabled manually via the notification preferences UI*. - Rational: - When you are on the notifications preferences, you can actually see all restrictions, so you can understand that creating one will make you lose all notifications that do not honor the restrictions. - However, when you are on a page, you don't see all the restrictions. If you click on the "subscribe" bell naively, you might not expect it will impact all other notifications. It would actually be very confusing. - In addition: if we add an "auto-watch" option, that add the page you just saved to the list of locations you are interested in, we need to have this feature too. Otherwise saving a document will make all other notifications silent. That is our plan. Cast you ideas! Thanks, Guillaume