5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
4:39 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
<valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
For the 4.2 Roadmap there are several issues related to accessibility of
applications inside the wiki.
One of these issues is http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7927 "Create an
entry point for all available applications inside the wiki ".
There are multiple ways to represent such a place (panel, special
directory, gadget, etc.) but the most easy (not sure how scalable,
especially if the user will create lots of spaces using AppWithinMinutes)
is to use a panel.
The problems remaining are:
- If we have a dedicated place to list applications what will remain in the
{{Spaces}} gadget on "Dashboard"? What we still consider to be a content
space? (Main, XWiki, Sandbox)? http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7926 or
we should still display visible spaces in it?
This is related to hidden documents, for the moment the only way to
hide a space from the {{spaces/}} macro is to hide all the documents
within. This is what has been done for: ColorThemes, Invitation,
Panels, Scheduler and Stats.
Also note that not only their are hidden from this macro but also from
search results, document indexes, document tree and the REST API.
It means that if we wanted to remove the Blog from the spaces list
(because it's already in the apps panel) we'd have to hide all the
page in the space; we can't really do that since blog articles
wouldn't appear in the search results.
- What we consider to be an application? We list just
spaces or even
feature pages like "Document Index" or "User Directory"?
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7925
IMO a "userland" application is a set of page, in a dedicated space or not.
- What about 'special' spaces like Scheduler,
Stats? we let the entry point
to be just the Administration (at least for now)? What about Invitation
functionality? etc.
- Scheduler, Stats: +1 to have their entry point in the administration
- Invitation: we can put it in the top menu or we could merge the
invitation and user directory applications, with the entry point of
the invitation in the user directory. I'm +1 for 2).
So I've created a doodle and the question is what
space/page do you think
we should have in this dedicated "Applications" panel:
http://www.doodle.com/uav7triciuf4kxpd
Ok, I see you've put the suggestion above in the doodle :)
You can use the doodle or you could respond in this main if you have other
suggestions or observations.
Thanks,
Caty
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