2013/4/8 Vincent Massol <[email protected]> > > On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > My feedback below: > > > > > > 2013/4/8 Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <[email protected]> > > > >> 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 for information, I didn't know that :) > > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
