Hi Guillaume, I completely agree and I was also close to -0/-1 on this for the same reason as you (the fact that not all users will see the same thing - When I answered +1 it was before I realized this).
I actually took the time to call Eddy on skype because of this :) Eddy explained that he had this need for the wiki 3.0 project and that this was his main motivation but that we could add the admin-customizable feature after. Thanks -Vincent On Mar 27, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi, > > it's not customized globally in the current pull request? I was expecting > this to be an admin-only feature that would then apply to all users. This > is the feature that I see requested by users. > > Being able to customize one's view of the user directory isn't asked for > that much. It might actually annoy admins, who expect the user directory to > display a given set of columns and then have to troubleshoot their users. > Last but not least, the current interface isn't simple enough for someone > non-technical to use. > > Thus I'd rather make this feature admin-only and make it apply globally. > > WDYT? > > Guillaume > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 16:47, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
