Hi Edy,

looks good to me. It's indeed a feature I regularly see requested.

One question: could we not reuse the same interface as AppWithinMinutes to
select livetable columns? I find it a bit more intuitive.

Guillaume

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 23:01, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi
>
> +1
>
> Jerome
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > I`ve worked on allowing the customization of the User Directory and,
> > implicitly, the ability to search for users in a wiki. The jira issue [1]
> > has 3 attached images, but I am going to link them here [2][3][4] too for
> > commodity.
> >
> > The idea is simple: Use the livetable to display users (pages with
> > XWikiUsers objects in them) and display a selection of extra columns
> > (XWikiUsers class property names) that are stored in the user's profile
> > page as preferences. Each user can define his/er own view over the user
> > directory and can also reset it to default.
> >
> > This feature comes as a complementary to the previous one [5] (that is
> > still waiting for your votes, BWT :) ). Combined, the two allow an admin
> to
> > display newly added user fields in the user's profile and other users to
> > perform user searches based on (and not only) these fields.
> >
> > The only inconvenience with this approach is related to the workspaces
> > application in the way that a workspace has a different membership
> > relationship (membership to the workspace's group) than a normal XE
> > instance or a farm subwiki (pages with XWikiUsers objects in them).
> Please
> > see the jira issue [6] about this inconvenience and also the chosen and
> > implemented solution (with an example).
> >
> > I`d like your vote if this is a feature that is to be integrated in
> XWiki,
> > as proposed by the 2 pull requests [7][8] that are available.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eduard
> >
> > ----------
> > [1] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XE-1131
> > [2]
> >
> http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/24775/customizableUserDirectory-default.png(default
> ,
> > no customization, default columns)
> > [3]
> >
> http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/24776/customizableUserDirectory-customize.png(customization
> > screen)
> > [4]
> >
> http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/attachment/24777/customizableUserDirectory-customized.png(customized
> > with extra columns added)
> > [5] http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/22snpab3czfdexln (mail: [VOTE]
> merge
> > branch 'feature-user-profile-information-editor' into master in 4.0M2)
> > [6] http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-7648 (workspaces issue with the
> > implemented solution)
> > [7] https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/pull/18
> > [8] https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/pull/42
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