Hi devs,
We've had several complaints from users about the Navigation Panel. The 3 big
needs that I’ve heard are:
1) Semi-automated by having the ability to blacklist items
2) Better performance ("It’s slow to load and reloads every time you navigate
to a new page”)
3) Ability to sort entries
See for ex:
* https://forum.xwiki.org/t/your-xwiki-usability-pain-points/440/11
* https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12895
Point 1
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That Panel is critical since it’s what users see the most (without navigating
anywhere) and it’s important that users be able to customize it (while keeping
the automated aspect, e.g. adding a new page should add it to the tree by
default as it’s done now).
Marius mentioned that adding blacklisting doesn’t make sense because we would
then have different behaviors between the Navigation Panel and:
• the breadcrumb trees
• the page index tree
• the location picker tree used on create/copy/rename page
• the location picker tree used by the CKEditor link and image dialogs
• anywhere we use a tree in XWiki default user interface
However I don’t fully agree about this. If you check the Applications Panel,
it’s not listing all Apps that exist. It’s only listing Apps that the admin
want his/her users to see by default. To see all apps there’s the App Index.
Similarly the Navigation Panel on the left should be listing what the admin
wants his/her users to see, and going to the Page Index should list all pages.
In short I really believe we need to allow customizing the panel with an Admin
UI that allows to blacklist some nodes).
Does anyone see a better idea to fulfill our user’s needs?
Point 2
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The main answer I see is to implement the doc title cache so that we don’t have
to load documents.
Do you see anything else?
Point 3
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I think this is kind of already implemented with “showDocumentTitle”, right?
Thanks
-Vincent
