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

[Jay R. A. <jr...@ba...>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:37:13PM -0400, Roy Johnson 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.

Hmmm...

> 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?

My snap reaction is that MyHomePage and MySandbox are both useful, but
they're *different*.

MySandbox is a page that is visible only to a logged in user and
looks different to each one even though it's in the same place in the
navtree for everyone.

MyHomePage is a page that is automatically a directory of all
registered users, and a link to a page owned by that user, but which
*is* visible to everyone including visitors (by default).

Or so it seems to me.

Was that clear enough?  On reflection, I'm not entirely sure I made the
distinction I wanted to...

> 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.

The latter one is slightly less unobvious to implement, so it seems to
me, but they're both useful...

Cheers,
-- jra
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