On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET <jeremie.bousq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > My feedback below: > > > 2013/4/8 Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <vali...@gmail.com> > >> Hi, >> >> We introduced the Activity Stream macro in XE 2.6 >> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Activity+Macro >> >> We are investigating ways to improve our Activity Stream, but in order to >> do that we would want to know your feedback about it (both from a >> technology and an user experience pov): >> - Is Activity Stream a macro you use? >> > It's just there, on my home page, but I never used the macro somewhere > else. I don't know exactly why, but I would say mainly because of > limitations (filtering...) and performance issues I had with it at some > time in the past, so I wasn't willing to put this macro everywhere. > >> - What features you most miss about it? Maybe filtering? Maybe pagination? >> > I miss both. In my case, my mail archive app generates a large bunch of > pages (for topics and mails) that crowd the activity stream. Ideally, I > would like to: > - have a stream that would show only mail archive events. Could be all > pages events from mail archive user (as there's a dedicated user > creating/updating the pages), but may be even better to allow filtering on > ... specific objects ? Would be the only way to differentiate a topic from > a mail in my case, allowing to show only topics, or only mails. I believe > that that may bring some performance issues though. > - have a stream that shows everything, except events from my mail archive > - have possibility to differentiate stream events depending on their "type" > (ie, show mails/topics events with a specific icon, different than the one > of standard pages). > - pagination seems less essential but would be very nice to have (if it > looks like the livetables pagination it would be even better). Talking > about that, livetable-style filtering would be nice to have (ie, enter a > keyword and have the stream filtered on it, based on name, author, ...). > - have possibility to remove an entry directly from the stream display. In > my case, when I change smtp password in xwiki prefs, the "see changes" of > related event shows both my old and new password in the diff view ... as > I'm not the only admin, it's a bit unsecure, so I'd like to remove that (my > example is more an issue on the diff view, I did not thoroughly check). > - have possibility to filter what streams get tracked, ie not only filter > the display (from the macro), but also prevent some events from being > tracked by activity stream. I must admit that maybe it's already possible, > I did not check. > - have some "purge" features and parameters available from xwiki admin, in > order to avoid having to perform them manually from db. For example, say > "keep only last 50 events for all pages" or "keep only last event for page > X.Y" or "keep only 1 event per day/month" etc..., and a purge job in > scheduler. This already exists :) See xwiki.cfg, specifically: #-# Number of days the events should be kept (0 or any negative value: infinite duration) #-# Note: if this value is greater than 0 a scheduler job will be created, this job will then be fired every week to #-# delete events older than the configured value. #-# Default: 0 # xwiki.plugin.activitystream.daystokeepevents=0 Thanks -Vincent >> - Would you like to see more event types, like events generated by >> applications? >> - Are you using the "Send Message" functionality? >> > I merely tested by sending a message to someone. It seems my message can > only be seen from his profile, so he never saw it. I think the feature > would be more interesting if new messages you received were displayed > clearly when you log in (through some popup for example, or in some area > near page content). Would be really nice to have it displayed in "real > time" (ie, I'm logged, someone sends me a message, it appears in my current > browser tab). > >> - Other opinions about it. >> >> Your feedback will help us improve the macro by adding needed functionality >> and not breaking used one. >> >> I'll gather ideas on >> >> http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/ActivityStreamFeedback50 >> >> Thanks, >> Caty _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
