Hello, On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Simon Urli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm writing this email as a follow-up after (yet another) brainstorming with > Vincent about how adding the app Menu in the administration > (https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15483). > > Sorry in advance if I repeat things that have already been said. > > So the general problem is that we want to be able to put apps with an > existing UI in the admin context, without loosing the ability to use the > apps outside the admin. It's already possible to include external apps in > the admin in keeping their UI, but it implies that the app can be used > without changing the page: for example, the menu app involves to go to /edit > when creating a new menu so it cannot be directly integrated as it is now. > > The best solution would be to create two UIs, one for the app to be used > externally and one for the admin, but then it would imply to maintain twice > the code. > > The solution on which we agreed with Vincent on the short-term view, is to > provide in the admin the app inside an iframe: the only problem we see would > be the design adaptation, especially for the responsiveness, but it should > do the job. > > Another solution discussed, to only allow using the app through the admin > (and so to keep only this UI) seems not acceptable as the app might be used > by other users in some usecases. > > It's also possible to only provide in the admin a link to the app, and then > to open it using the standard path, i.e. outside the admin, but then the > user might be constantly switching context which looks bad in the UX point > of view. > > Maybe to ponderate this problem of context switching, a long term view > solution would be to allow displaying the administration menu in some apps > but I really don't know if it's feasible or not. > > So to conclude, first: > - do you agree with the short term solution to use an iframe for displaying > the admin app in the admin, at least as a first step for the menu app? >
I would rather have, for a short term solution, a redirection to the menu app instead of having an iframe. > Then how do you think we should do more globally for the other admin app > (menu, scheduler, stats, admintools, ...): > 1. maintain two UIs > 2. include the existing UI in an iframe > 3. provide only a link to access the app externally > 4. ... another idea? > > Thanks, > Simon > -- > Simon Urli > Software Engineer at XWiki SAS > [email protected] > More about us at http://www.xwiki.com Thanks, Adel
