13 Jul
2017
13 Jul
'17
2:28 p.m.
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> 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;:
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was
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Guillaume Delhumeau (guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com)
Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Guillaume
Delhumeau <
guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Notifications
*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
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* 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 > 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 "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
the
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
> 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