DW> Is this one portlet (i.e. Favorites) that needs to go on a fragment,
or a whole fragment-worth of portlets?
Favoriting a portlet is the same thing as adding it to layout, except it
drops into the _favorites fragment instead of into a tab that the user
interacts with in a more customary way.
So, the user has a _favorites tab in the layout. Favoriting portlets
adds them to that tab. Un-favoriting removes from them that tab. The
Favorites portlet grabs the _favorites tab, enumerates its content, and
renders it as a listing of favorites. It's an alternate view on and
interaction with a subset of the layout.
On 1/13/14, 12:17 PM, Drew Wills wrote:
Andrew
On 01/13/2014 09:17 AM, Andrew Petro wrote:
So, the Favorites portlet needs a meta-fragment into which to shove the
user's favorites. The meta-fragment doesn't display as a tab, but it
benefits from all the features of DLM for providing users a default set
of Favorites (not entirely clear that we're actually going to provide
any default favorites here at Wisc, but it's a nice feature that falls
out from using DLM fragments for this.)
Is this one portlet (i.e. Favorites) that needs to go on a fragment,
or a whole fragment-worth of portlets?
I'm attracted to a convention-over-configuration flavored solution of
naming such meta fragments starting with _ and then filtering out such
fragments in non-meta contexts.
I think we can use just a regular fragment, but place this content
within a <folder> element with type=something_besides_regular. (This
is an approach/pattern we're already using... see below)
I see some other meta-fragments in trunk that I don't yet understand
(Authenticated? Resondr? NonRespondr?). I'll go understand those
better before the end of Favorites, I'm sure.
Those are for use with Regions. For Respondr, the portlets in those
fragments are placed in <folder> elements with
type=emergency|highlighted|greeting|etc. Non-"regular" folder types
are not rendered in the tab/column area -- they are dropped into regions.
drew
But: is uPortal already doing something interesting to identify and
filter out meta-fragments? How do others feel about a "meta fragments
start with underscores" approach to make this more convention-driven?
Andrew
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