22 Mar
2011
22 Mar
'11
6:16 p.m.
On Mar 22, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Luca Anca wrote:
Hi all,
I've got some suggestions that the current way of editing the dashboard
is not really intuitive (Edit -> Inline Form), and mainly because users
wouldn't necessarily look under "Edit" for a method to change the
dashboard. Also, other users that I've observed, forgot that they need
to go in some edit mode before changing things.
I also agree that without documentation no user would figure out that
editing a dashboard is under Edit -> Inline Form. While editing will
still remain "in inline mode", from the technical pov, we need to
provide a easier way for users to discover this.
Let's look at the following options:
1/ Add a "Customize" menu entry under edit, in the page menu, as
proposed in the mockups from Cati, a long time ago:
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/GadgetsDashboard .
2/ Add a "Customize this dashboard" button in the dashboard in view
mode, in the top right corner, something like
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Design/GadgetIntegration/oldDashboa…
but styled better to integrate with the current dashboard.
3/ Define and implement a mechanism to allow the inline form edit to be
triggered for a document without that document having to include a
document which has an object in it. E.g. as Vincent proposed at one
point, trigger inline mode when an object is present in the current
document.
I'd like to have an XObject that tells what is the default edit mode. Then add it to
the home page and make that page a full dashboard, possibly with the welcome message as a
gadget.
Whether we also need 1/ or 2/ is debatable but independently of this I'd like to
implement this 3.
Thanks
-Vincent
I should note that solutions 1 and 3 still assume that
the user will go
to "Edit" to try to customize the dashboard, which can also be
problematic (I cannot figure it out for sure right now, we need fresh
users or proper UX expertise which I don't have).
WDYT?
Thanks,
Anca