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

We could have a setting: "watch all locations" or "watch just particular pages". Further more you have the ability to "watch all events" or play with the on/off switches.

If the user sets to "just particular pages", than the "watch" icon appears and we use the include list. Also when setting watch for particular pages, the user might want to configure the "auto-watch" for the pages he created, or commented, or edited. Those pages will be automatically added in the include list, with the possibility to manually remove them from the page (on the bell icon) or from the watched filters list. Thanks, Caty On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Guillaume Delhumeau < guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: > It makes sense. Creating an exclude filter is much more natural than the > complicated filter I was proposing...

> But in the case of the auto-watch, it could be good to store somewhere the > list of pages where the user has contributed, in order to still include > them even if the user disable the notifications on a larger scope.

> 2017-07-12 10:57 GMT+02:00 Marius Dumitru Florea < > mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com&gt;gt;: > >> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Guillaume Delhumeau < >> guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> *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 >>> >> >> Maybe I didn't understood correctly, but if you have no restrictions and >> you go to a page A then that page should appear as "watched" because you >> are receiving notifications for that page (because you don't have >> restrictions). So if the icon is "watched" then clicking on it will > toggle >> "don't watch". So you are actually removing that page from the list of >> watched pages (i.e. you add an exclude). >> >> It all depends on what's the initial state: >> >> (1) receive notifications from everywhere => then when you go to a page > you >> can exclude it >> (2) no notifications => then when you go to a page you can include it >> >> So it depends what you understand by "no restrictions". Either all >> notifications or no notifications. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Marius >> >> >>> 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 >>> >> > > > > -- > Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com) > Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS > Committer on the XWiki.org project >