Re: [Pbwebgui-development] Idea: "My Home" page.

[JT S. <jt...@pl...>]

This is part of the 7.x roadmap, which we have not yet publicly published. I think it's 
in 7.1, but that's a long way off.

What we have planned is a dashboard wobject. The dashboard will have some sort of 
pluggable component (portlet, widget, gizmo, dashlet, whatever). Each component will 
serve a different function. Here are some we have planned: stock ticker, rss feed 
viewer, weather, server monitor, todo list, calculator, discussion agregator (gets data 
from all the discussions in WebGUI), mini calendar, pop3 watcher, link list, box scores 
(sports scores). When in admin mode the the administrator creates a default state for 
the dashboard, file drawer (an upload place to store files). When a new user (except 
visitor, they get the default) browses to the dashboard, a clone of the default is made 
for them, and they can then add/remove/rearrange to their hearts content. Each component 
will have three "views": class properties (only admin can set), instance properties (the 
user sets), and display (the resulting output). The user can also configure how many 
columns the dashboard has, the width of each columan, and the organization of the 
dashlets in each column.


On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:37:13 -0400
  "Roy Johnson" <RJo...@sp...> wrote:
>I would like to develop a "My Home" page for WebGUI.  I looked at the Roadmap for 6.x 
>and did not see this on the list.  Basically what I'm referring to is a page that is 
>unique to every registered user in WebGUI on which they can do everything one could do 
>when adding a normal page in WebGUI.
>
>This would basically be like a sandbox for each user to put things (content) that they 
>found useful.  In our company, we use WebGUI to run our corporate intranet so this 
>would be extremely useful to us.
>
>I'm thinking it could work something like this:
>
>1) User logs in and within the navigation system there is automatically a link to "My 
>Home" or something similar.
>
>2) When the user clicks on this page they are free to do everything they could do on a 
>regular page that was added in WebGUI.  The difference would be that the content on the 
>page would be unique to their login.
>
>Has this concept/idea been explored before?  Can anyone think of a way to implement 
>this functionality within WebGUI as it exists now?
>
>If anyone has any ideas on ways to approach this or would be interested in working on 
>it with me please let me know.  I'm fairly new to the WebGUI API but am willing to 
>devote a large amount of time to the project.  
>
>Comments/Feedback/Flames are welcomed {:-)  Thanks!
>
>Roy
>
>
>
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