Anyone else implemented rendering a *fragment* "in focus mode"? Or want
to look at my implementation and show me how to make it less painful? :)
# Background:
Favorites introduces a concept of layout folders of
@type="favorite_collection" rather than the @type="regular" that marks
plain-old-normal-layout-tabs. Such layout folders are real DLM managed
fragments, are "in the layout" of the users to whom they apply (for whom
they are activated when the relevant DLM audience evaluator matches).
But because their @type is goofy, they're not rendered as
regular-old-tabs and normally users don't see them.
Users are intended to access them via the new Favorites portlet and to
select new curated such collections for favoriting via the new
Marketplace portlet in an experience that will probably be analogous to
subscribable fragments (which subscribable fragments currently come in
as regular old tabs).
When a user clicks on the name of a favorite collection in the Favorites
portlet, the portal needs to render that fragment mostly as if it were
@type="regular", and as if it were the only tab in the layout. We're
focusing in on a fragment that the user normally doesn't see at all.
So, I've got an implementation of this that sort of works. Pull request
here, with lovely screenshots:
https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/pull/230
# How this solution needs to improve
As I continue to try out this solution, I'm learning that it would be a
lot better to re-purpose the folder-name in the uPortal URL for this
rather than introducing a new parameter. In the case where the folder
name matches a regular-old-tab, then the current behavior of
"activating" that tab and rendering the dashboard with that tab
selected. In the case where it matches a non-regular fragment, render
that fragment focused.
Anyone have hints on how I'd go after that approach rather than what I
did? I looked into it but got tangled up where it seems to be
translating the identifier into the index of the activated tab, which of
course doesn't quite work when the targeted folder isn't a regular tab
and so doesn't end up having an index, and that seemed to be just enough
to prevent the just-use-the-folder-name approach from getting the id of
the desired-for-focus fragment to show up as a parameter to the
structure transform where it could do some good.
Andrew
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