It makes sense. Creating an exclude filter is much more natural than the complicated filter I was proposing...
But in the case of the auto-watch, it could be good to store somewhere the list of pages where the user has contributed, in order to still include them even if the user disable the notifications on a larger scope. 2017-07-12 10:57 GMT+02:00 Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]>: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Guillaume Delhumeau < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > *TL;DR* > > > > - Add a button in each page that will allow you to subscribe to all > > events that happens to that page. > > - When you subscribe to a page with this "in-context" bell, it must > not > > affect your other preferences regarding notifications. > > > > *Full Post* > > > > Hello developers, > > > > With Clément Aubin, we are implementing new features in the Notifications > > Application in order to be able to remove the Watchlist Application. > > > > *Status* > > > > Currently, a user can subscribe to different kinds of events (ex: > "update", > > "comment", "blog published", etc...). Recently, we have also added the > > ability to restrict on which locations we are interested in, for each > kind > > of events. For example, we are now able to say, "for the *update* event, > > show me notifications only about the wiki ABC and for the *blog post* > > event, show me notifications only about the space XYZ". > > > > If you have no restriction (a.k.a "filters") on an event type, then you > > receive notifications for every event matching the event type in the > wiki, > > no matter the location of the entity it concerns. > > > > *Objectives* > > > > In the Watchlist Application, we had 3 switches on the top menu that was > > displayed on every page, and these switches were "watch this wiki / watch > > this space / watch this page". That would be great if we could have the > > same for the notifications. > > > > *Proposal* > > > > - Add the ability to subscribe to all events that happen in a given > > location, no matter their type (≈ what the watchlist does). > > - In each page, add a button to subscribe to the current location: > > https://pasteboard.co/GAqEi6M.png (thanks Caty for the mockup) > > > > > > - Problem: if you previously had no restriction, you suddenly add a > new > > one that will prevent you to receive any notifications > > concerning the other > > > > Maybe I didn't understood correctly, but if you have no restrictions and > you go to a page A then that page should appear as "watched" because you > are receiving notifications for that page (because you don't have > restrictions). So if the icon is "watched" then clicking on it will toggle > "don't watch". So you are actually removing that page from the list of > watched pages (i.e. you add an exclude). > > It all depends on what's the initial state: > > (1) receive notifications from everywhere => then when you go to a page you > can exclude it > (2) no notifications => then when you go to a page you can include it > > So it depends what you understand by "no restrictions". Either all > notifications or no notifications. > > Hope this helps, > Marius > > > > locations. A bit like the rights module: adding a right to > > someone at some > > level will dismiss rights for all other people. I guess we all > > agree it's a > > problem on the User Experience point of view. > > - Proposition: the restriction added by the "in-context" button > > should be *inactive if there is no other restriction enabled > manually > > via the notification preferences UI*. > > - Rational: > > - When you are on the notifications preferences, you can > actually > > see all restrictions, so you can understand that creating > > one will make you > > lose all notifications that do not honor the restrictions. > > - However, when you are on a page, you don't see all the > > restrictions. If you click on the "subscribe" bell > > naively, you might not > > expect it will impact all other notifications. It would > > actually be very > > confusing. > > - In addition: if we add an "auto-watch" option, that add the > > page you just saved to the list of locations you are interested in, we > > need > > to have this feature too. Otherwise saving a document will make all > > other > > notifications silent. > > > > That is our plan. Cast you ideas! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Guillaume > > > -- Guillaume Delhumeau ([email protected]) Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS Committer on the XWiki.org project
