The way I do this for another similar feature, using UIX objects, is to add two new parameters, "enabled" and "order". When displaying the extensions for a particular point, I request them ordered by the "order" parameter, and then manually skip those for which the "enabled" parameter is set to "false" -- if the parameter is missing, it's considered enabled by default.
We can define that the order should have a value between 0 and 100, and each extension can choose it's own relative number, as an expected percentage, with the actual order depending on which other extensions are installed and enabled, and their requested order. As a more advanced feature, in PhenoTips we also have a wizard that allows enabling/disabling and manually reordering extensions, by modifying the extension parameters. I didn't have time for this yet, but in the future I'd like to add support for ordering and enable/disable flags in the core UIX module, so that extensions are automatically filtered and ordered. On 10/05/2016 05:37 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > With the recent introduction of the Applications Index (see > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Application+Index+Application/) > we need to agree on a few things. > > In the past we had: > * We wanted all new app that you installed to automatically be visible in the > Applications Panel > * This is why the Applications Panel config had a blacklist (and not a white > list) > > What we’ve done: > * We add the Applications Index > * We removed some apps from the Applications Panel. Namely: Invitation, > Panels, Scheduler, User Directory and Tour applications. this was done using > hardcoded blacklist xobjects in PanelsCode.ApplicationsPanelConfiguration. > > The need: > * We need to remove this hack. It’s not normal for the Panels module to know > all the apps that shouldn’t be listed in it! > > Proposal: > * Replace the blacklist configuration of the Applications Panel by a > whitelist one > * When a new app is installed, list it in the Applications Index but don’t > add it to the Applications Panel > * If an admin wants to add this new for his users, he’ll need to add it in > the Admin UI for the Applications Panel. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
