Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] HomePage Application

The problem is that you are changing the user's expectations of how he can interact with pages right from the start (Homepage). Users might like to have this 'selection' behavior for other pages too, not just the Homepage. What you are describing is setting a template for the Homepage (Dashboard, empty, or any other existing page), but it doesn't solve the initial problems with the editing of Welcome message, the technicality of WYSWYG include macros, the display of rendered macros in WYSIWYG, etc.

I don't have a clear opinion of this feature (it is nice to have), but not sure it will fix any of our problems.

Thanks, Caty On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, vincent(a)massol.net wrote: > > Hi devs, > > Problem > ======= > > This week end I’ve had an idea that solves the following issue: > > - Make it easy for the user to be able to change his wiki's home page > - Make it understandable when clicking “edit” on the home page > > Solution > ========= > > At some point in the past, I moved the dashboard which was on the home > page to the Dashboard space. My rationale at the time was: > - if the user removes the home page then the user will still be able to > navigate to the Dashboard by clicking on the “Dashboard” link in the > Applications Panel > - when editing the home page it’s “just” an Include > > Said differently, I considered that the home page can be configured to > point to any app. > > This is what I’d like to push for and make it easy for the user to > configure the home page so that it can point to any app. > > Implementation > =============== > > - A HomePage.HomePageClass XClass with one “reference” field which is the > reference to the document to include from the home page (the app to point > to if you prefer) > - A HomePage.HomePageSheet which is bound to the HomePage.HomePageClass > - One instance of the HomePage.HomePageClass put in Main.WebHome so that > when you click “edit” on the home page, HomePage.HomePageSheet is called > and displays some instructions about changing the home page. Here’s an > example: > > > https://www.evernote.com/shard/s119/sh/b682040d-6a09-4cfc-b6aa-1eab4b4d8d5e… > > Here’s the content of HomePageSheet (not finished, I still need to code > the part that changes the “reference” property): > > {{velocity}} > #if ($xcontext.action == 'edit') > #set ($previewenabled = 'false') > The content of this home page can be the content of any page you wish. > > Right now it is displaying the content of the > [[$doc.getValue('reference')>>$doc.getValue('reference')]] page. > > In order to change it, click the "Use as Home Page" link in the table > below for the page you wish to use as your new home page. > > #set($collist = ['doc.name', 'doc.space', 'doc.date', 'doc.author', > '_actions']) > #set($colprops = { > 'doc.title' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > 'doc.fullName' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > 'doc.name' : { 'type' : 'text' , 'size' : 30, 'link' : 'view' }, > 'doc.space' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'space' }, > 'doc.date' : { 'type' : 'date' }, > 'doc.author' : { 'type' : 'text', 'link' : 'author' }, > '_actions': { 'html': true, 'sortable': false, 'actions': ['Use'] } > }) > #set($options = { > 'translationPrefix' : 'platform.index.' > }) > #livetable('documents' $collist $colprops $options) > #else > ## If there's content don't use the default app > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > $doc.content > #else > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > #end > #end > {{/velocity}} > > - Note that if the user forces the edition in wiki mode or WYSIWYG mode of > the home page he gets an empty page and he can put content and when he > saves his content is displayed! (this is achieved through the following > portion of the script in HomePageSheet: > > ## If there's content don't use the default app > #if ($doc.content.trim().length() > 0) > $doc.content > #else > {{include reference="$doc.getValue('reference')" context="new"/}} > #end > > - Also note that I’d like to propose to add the ability to configure the > buttons to display in edit mode. ATM I think only the preview one can be > hidden but we could do the same for all. In our case here we could decide > to only leave the “Cancel” one active since clicking on “use” in the > Livetable could set the page to include immediately. The other option is to > use a different picker than the livetable and keep the save buttons. Any > suggestion for this? > > The idea would be to package this as an HomePage Application in > xwiki-platform and would be bundled by default in XE. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs