Actually I've just realized that we cannot customize the user directory for the whole wiki. Only users can customize what they see.
I've created a new jira issue http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XE-1137 (which IMO is even more needed than XE-1137 but that's a personal opinion ;)). Thanks -Vincent On Mar 26, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > +1 this is a nice improvement even though it wasn't implemented the way I > proposed it with XObjects for Interface Extensions (see > http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/jj6z3ywptaqesv4r ) ;) > > It wouldn't be hard to change though by replacing the Override page with an > XObject I think. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Eduard Moraru 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
