27 Mar
2012
27 Mar
'12
10:26 a.m.
Hi,
the fact that this feature is needed by the Wiki 3.0 project is not a
sufficient reason to include it in platform by default. It can be
contributed as an extension or as part of the Wiki 3.0 distrib.
I'm not in favor of introducing that feature in its current form to all
users. I already see the questions flowing in. I recently worked on a
project involving heavy customization of the user directory and where 2 of
the goals were:
- Same view of the user directory for all users (needed for compliance
reasons)
- Simple interface for end-users
In its current form, this patch does not meet either of those needs. I am
afraid that it will do more harm that good if included by default.
I'm -0.
Guillaume
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:14, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Hi Guillaume,
I completely agree and I was also close to -0/-1 on this for the same
reason as you (the fact that not all users will see the same thing - When I
answered +1 it was before I realized this).
I actually took the time to call Eddy on skype because of this :) Eddy
explained that he had this need for the wiki 3.0 project and that this was
his main motivation but that we could add the admin-customizable feature
after.
Thanks
-Vincent
On Mar 27, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote:
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Hi,
it's not customized globally in the current pull request? I was expecting
this to be an admin-only feature that would then apply to all users. This
is the feature that I see requested by users.
Being able to customize one's view of the user directory isn't asked for
that much. It might actually annoy admins, who expect the user directory
to
display a given set of columns and then have to
troubleshoot their users.
Last but not least, the current interface isn't simple enough for someone
non-technical to use.
Thus I'd rather make this feature admin-only and make it apply globally.
WDYT?
Guillaume
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 16:47, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>
wrote:
> Actually I've just realized that we cannot customize the user directory
> for the whole wiki. Only users can customize what they see.
>
> I've created a new jira issue
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-1137(which IMO is even more needed
than XE-1137 but that's a personal opinion
> ;)).
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> On Mar 26, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
>> +1 this is a nice improvement even though it wasn't implemented the way
> I proposed it with XObjects for Interface Extensions (see
> http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/jj6z3ywptaqesv4r ) ;)
>>
>> It wouldn't be hard to change though by replacing the Override page
with
> an XObject I think.
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
>>
>> On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Eduard Moraru wrote:
>>
>>> Hi devs,
>>>
>>> I`ve worked on allowing the customization of the User Directory and,
>>> implicitly, the ability to search for users in a wiki. The jira issue
> [1]
>>> has 3 attached images, but I am going to link them here [2][3][4] too
> for
>>> commodity.
>>>
>>> The idea is simple: Use the livetable to display users (pages with
>>> XWikiUsers objects in them) and display a selection of extra columns
>>> (XWikiUsers class property names) that are stored in the user's
profile
>>> page as preferences. Each user can
define his/er own view over the
user
>>> directory and can also reset it to
default.
>>>
>>> This feature comes as a complementary to the previous one [5] (that is
>>> still waiting for your votes, BWT :) ). Combined, the two allow an
> admin to
>>> display newly added user fields in the user's profile and other users
to
>>> perform user searches based on (and
not only) these fields.
>>>
>>> The only inconvenience with this approach is related to the workspaces
>>> application in the way that a workspace has a different membership
>>> relationship (membership to the workspace's group) than a normal XE
>>> instance or a farm subwiki (pages with XWikiUsers objects in them).
> Please
>>> see the jira issue [6] about this inconvenience and also the chosen
and
>>> implemented solution (with an
example).
>>>
>>> I`d like your vote if this is a feature that is to be integrated in
> XWiki,
>>> as proposed by the 2 pull requests [7][8] that are available.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eduard
>>>
>>> ----------
>>> [1] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1131
>>> [2]
>>>
>
http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/24775/customizableUserDirectory-def…
> ,
>>> no customization, default columns)
>>> [3]
>>>
>
http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/24776/customizableUserDirectory-cus…
>>> screen)
>>> [4]
>>>
>
http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/24777/customizableUserDirectory-cus…
>>> with extra columns added)
>>> [5] http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/22snpab3czfdexln (mail: [VOTE]
> merge
>>> branch 'feature-user-profile-information-editor' into master in
4.0M2)
>>> [6] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7648 (workspaces issue with
the
> implemented solution)
> [7] https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/pull/18
> [8] https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/pull/42
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