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

[Nils-Magne K. <nil...@kv...>]

The company i work for use Microsoft Sharepoint portal server, and the
intranet is huge and covers four different languages. This intranet is
loaded with information that is crusial for us to do our daily job. And it
is possible for us to find nearly everything on this intranet. But it has a
feature that it's called "My Home Page", this page is a spesial page with a
predifined layout (5-6 regions) where onely you as a user have the rights to
view.
To populate this page you can view any page on the intranet and clik on a
link on that page that say's "put on My Home Page" it then copys itself to
one of the regions on "My Home Page" and you hav instant acsess to it. The
administrator desides which region a page should be placed in.
In the end we end up with a page that is customased to each persons need. If
WebGUI could extend this furtermore with the ability to not put the whole
page in this page but elements from the page too... that would be great. And
your plannes for the dashboard wobject would be perfect for extending such a
page to be even more useful.
Just think of it. You are visiting a huge site wich contains a lot of useful
stuf in a lot of different places. You are offered the possibility to create
your own customased "home Page" which containes only the stuff that you are
interested of and a section of What is new on the site. I addition you have
alle the toy's
> 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).
This begin to look like my "startup Page"

This was my understanding of what Roy meant and extended with the thoughts
of JT, I can only say that this feature would bring WebGUI a big step
forward.

Nils-Magne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JT Smith" <jt...@pl...>
To: <pbw...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Pbwebgui-development] Idea: "My Home" page.


> 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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