So I don't have an end user case in mind, but I definitely like this from a technical standpoint.
I have tried something similar before that ended up being a bit of a nightmare, but while I was typing some of that up I had a thought. I think the major mistake we made when working on this was to try to make a separate management interface, separate from the content itself. If instead there had been a "manager mode" where you can see which links are editable, edit them in-place, confirm that you want to affect this page plus pages 0..N, I think this would actually be quite powerful and intuitive. Definitely would be a better experience than the generic "named variable" admin approach we went for, and a lot simpler to boot. As far as click tracking, I think that would also be pretty useful on our project, since our customer wants to automate a lot of analysis and recommendation. Anyway, that's my two cents. Hope it's helpful. :-) Andrew Stuart On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 09:44:09PM +0000, Andrew W Petro wrote: > Having some thoughts around here about building / adopting a link management > service and incorporating it into the portal. > > > Solve things like: > > > * Abstracting the specifics of a link from the portal, so that link qua link > can be managed > > * Delegated administration over updating links, by the appropriate > not-necessarily-technical staff. > > * Reporting, analytics on links. How much are they being used, by what > sorts of users. > > * Make link updating less of a developer-involving task. Less with the > updating entity files in source control and re-importing them. More with the > accessing a Web UI to update link data. Links as data rather than as code. > > > Anyone else gone down this road? > > > Anyone else interested in having their portal better meet these kinds of > needs? > > > Kind regards, > > > Andrew > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
