Also, when you hit the Preview, you actually see that Subject and Message fields have standard content. This content should be displayed from the start and the user should have control over it. Most of the users will leave the standard configurations alone.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:15, Ecaterina Valica <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:51, Marius Dumitru Florea < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Caleb, >> >> Caleb James DeLisle wrote: >> > Another matter is what should it be named, I have been calling it >> "friendInviter" which is an awkward name >> > but invitation manager is a name which will lead to confusion since it >> does not use the invitation manager >> > plugin. >> >> xwiki-invitation sounds good to me too, as Vincent suggested. >> >> > >> > Vincent Massol wrote: >> >> On Apr 20, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Caleb James DeLisle wrote: >> >> >> >>> I have a working prototype of the invitation mail sender and I would >> like to put it in the sandbox. >> >>> I need to know how that should be done and should this be a separate >> top level project on jira? >> >>> Some guidance here would be great. >> >> +1 for a top level app in platform/applications (which means a jira for >> it too). >> >> >> >> As for the process, I'm proposing: >> >> 1) explain what this app would do (maybe you already did?) >> > I described what I hoped to achieve here: >> > >> http://www.pubbs.net/201001/xwiki/60333-xwiki-devs-proposal-allow-users-to-send-mail-inviting-their-friends-to-join-a-wiki.html >> > >> >> > and show a mockup of its UI so that we can agree about it and get help >> for our community designers >> > There has been one here for a while, I rewrote the code but the UI is >> the same. >> > >> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/InvitationMail/FriendInviter >> >> I couldn't find a mockup for displaying the list of invitations >> (pending/accepted) sent by the user. > > > After all people accepted, do we still keep the list of invited people? Is > this a token of user's popularity? :P Just like Gmail, you could have a > limited number of people you could invite in the wiki and take care of your > followers :) we shouldn't do that, but was just an idea. > > >> I think this should appear >> somewhere on the user profile. Also, is it possible to cancel an >> invitation? I have two use cases in mind: >> >> * the user sends the invitation to the wrong email address >> * the user wants to delete invitations that haven't been accepted in a >> specific amount of time (e.g. the invitee is asked to register before a >> given date) >> > > If this step would be for the administrator, would be nice from the list of > accepted users, that we can apply batch operations for giving rights and > adding people in certain groups. Again, just an idea. > > >> >> How is the invitation application going to work in a wiki where >> registration is disabled? i.e. you have to be invited to be able to >> register. >> >> Regarding the send invitation form, I think it would be useful to add >> explanatory text below each label. For instance, it's not clear that the >> user has to enter an email address in the "Who you are inviting:" field >> (can I enter multiple email addresses?). Also on the same page we should >> describe what happens with the invitation (the fact than an email is >> sent to the specified email address) and ask the user to not abuse this >> feature because his right to send invitations can be removed if his >> invitations are reported as spam. >> > > I don't understand why you have 2 interfaces that do the same thing. Why > there is a version if you have edit right for the page? If you don't have > edit rights you shouldn't see a form, but just the labels and content of the > form elements, or nothing at all. > > The first problem I see in the usability is, like Marius said, inviting > multiple people in the same step. This step is essentially for the > productivity and is working different in the view/pretendEdit right mode. > > In the pretendEdit mode you have a textarea for entering lists of emails > with separators. The view mode has validation for the email field. Do you > plan to validate the multiple mails too? Also users are not very good at > following directions like "*with a comma and a space*". > > A solution for this would be just like the way we add Tags. Provide an > overlay for entering emails one by one. This way you can validate them in > the overlay and also take care of the separators. The emails could be > deleted using the corner X. > > The problem with this solution is if the user is experimented and he has a > standard list of emails he wants to paste, without entering one by one. We > should satisfy both use cases. > > Caty > > >> Hope this helps, >> Marius >> >> > >> >> 2) send a vote mail to include the invitation manager in XE by default >> (if not already done) >> > I'd like to have something concrete in the sandbox to vote on. >> > >> >> 3) code it, you could start in the sandbox indeed or directly in >> platform/applications if 1) and 2) have been agreed on. >> > I will commit to the sandbox later today. >> >> Thanks >> >> -Vincent >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> devs mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > devs mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
