Andrew,
Thank you for being so open, the community is so much richer for it.
My opinions inline...
On 07/08/14 20:29, Andrew Petro wrote:
* *Collections of Favorites are gone*, at least for now. [1]
This is devastating news :-(
* User-selected *Normal Window State portlets living on the landing
tab are back in*. This means that Maximized isn't the only way to
get at user-selected stuff; portlets are sometimes in Normal Window
State rather than only Maximized.
Woo Hoo!
* Favoriting a portlet and adding it to one’s Welcome page (the only
page of multiple portlets) is exactly the same thing. *So, you
favorite a portlet, and that adds it in Minimized window state right
on your home screen. * You might then expand it to Normal window
state, and that expansion will be remembered.
Love the use of minimized window state.
* *Minimized window state will have a styled infocard-like
representation.* Title, first bit of the description, icon. Enough
to evoke what it is so you can decide to open it.
Will this be actually rendered portets or just skin trickery from
marketplace registry? I hope its the former, portelts have a lot to
offer. Perhaps it could source and aggregate some marketplace content
too via an API.
* User *re-ordering of the portlets in the home screen will be
disabled* to reduce technical risk and support burden.
Drag-and-drop as trip hazard. This feature probably comes back in
on some subsequent release.
Trip hazard?
* *Search is de-scoped to only search MyUW content*, and we’re
dropping the whole search Portlet Event thing. No search of dynamic
content, just search over descriptions and other static portlet
publication metadata. *This will make search radically faster.* It
also probably makes search implementation radically different in
that, at least for the near term in redesigned MyUW, *Search is just
another view on Marketplace*. It’s entirely feasible to load the
entire (filtered-for-the-user) portlet metadata registry down into
the browser and perform all the search operations client-side. This
will make search radically faster.
Couldn't a hybrid solution be found? I believe autocomplete has already
gone this way. Perhaps the initial render can be followed by ajax
loading->loaded content search? (infinite scroller?)
I see personalized federated search as a big selling point of uPortal.
There must be ways we can make this performant (or at least appear so).
We've spoken in the past about including a crawler, I feel there may be
something in this.
Also we spoke about the difficulties of personalized search in the
absence of a PortletRequest :-( .... perhaps ajax is our friend? simple
but effective.
-- Anthony.
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