Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Create Dashboard Application in platform/

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:29:07 -0800 

On 11/14/2011 01:51 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:

On Nov 14, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Eduard Moraru wrote:


+1,

Also, what about the Dashboard macro itself? Can it be moved inside
something like
xwiki-platform/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-dashboard/xwiki-platform-dashboard-macro?

It's a wiki macro. I wouldn't create a new app just for it. IMO it's very fine 
in the Dashboard app and would be overkill to create a new app just for 1 page 
(I also don't see what it would bring more).


?
dashboard macro is not a 'wiki macro' as in it's not in a wiki page, it's in a java module. It would make a bit sense to move it in it's own module since it's a bit of a rebel macro: it uses and depends on the platform-oldcore which is not really what rendering macros do...
Otherwise I have nothing against putting all that in a dashboard application ( 0 ), as long as it's preserving the behaviour.
Just as an experience to share: upgrading Main.WebHome is really really annoying, on multiwikis, we need to make a script or so everytime we make changes in the default main.webhome, so in this case too. I gained this experience when i changed the main.webhome in order to introduce dashboards on it, and everybody that upgraded farms complained about having to upgrade each main.webhome manually. We should avoid this. 

Thanks,
Anca



Thanks
-Vincent


Thus, we would also have something like
xwiki-platform/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-dashboard/xwiki-platform-dashboard-ui
for the xwiki pages. This would organize it more like a feature.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Eduard

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Mortagne
<[email protected]>wrote:


+1

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Vincent Massol<[email protected]>
wrote:

Hi devs,

I'd like to introduce a Dashboard Application in a

xwiki-platform/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-dashboard/ module.

It would contain the following pages:

1/ Main.Dashboard.xml (currently in XE's app)
2/ The pages making up the user dashboard

(XWiki.UserDashboardPreferencesClass, XWiki.XWikiUserDashboardSheet)
(currently in Admin app)

3/ A new page which will have the logic to choose to display the user

dashboard or the main shared dashboard (currently this code is in
Main.WebHome in XE's app)

Also I'd like to suggest introducing a Dashboard space and have all the

above-mentioned pages in that space.

Dashboard.WebHome would contain 3/.

And Main.WebHome would simply do an include of Dashboard.WebHome.

Note that this would allow the following:
* Ability to cleanly document the Dashboard feature on

extensions.xwiki.org and have it visible on enterprise.xwiki.org for
example

* It goes in the direction of splitting our XE XAR in discrete

application

* It groups together (functionally) a domain (dashboard) which means

that if a user doesn't want the dashboard feature, we can simply not
install it or remove it easily.

WDYT?

Thanks
-Vincent

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