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

[Roy J. <RJo...@sp...>]

This is along the lines I was thinking.  Having a system such that =
www.mysite.com/username took someone to "their" page would be great.

I also like the idea of adding a user to a "portal owner" group or similar =
that gives them the "My Home Page" option without having to make them =
content managers.

This idea came from evaluating other CMS Platforms (PHPNuke in particular).=
  If any of you have seen/or used that CMS maybe what I'm talking about =
would be more clear.

The dashboard sounds like something that will be very cool but I'm not =
sure that it would accomplish the same things that I'm referring to.

1) A "My Home" page would give a user their own page on which they could =
do anything that a page owner could normally do.  i.e., proxy wobjects, =
create new wobjects, change page template, etc.

2) After reading the dashboard description, it seems that it would be a =
feature aimed at users of a lower skill level and give them less flexibilit=
y.  I agree that for the majority of users this is exactly what you want.

This is why I like the idea of a "Portal Owner" group or similar.  This =
would give site admins the ability to give their power users a place to =
build what is essentially their own one page website.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

Roy

>>> dp...@di... 07/07/04 02:50AM >>>
Sounds a lot like a user-customizable "portal" page to me.

He says the home page would have a link to a "My Home Page", and when you =
click this link
you'd get a page that's totally under your own control.

Doesn't sound that much different than what would be needed to support =
"self-replicating"
sites, except he's postulating that the user needs to be logged in first.

Consider two options:

(1) A URL like "www.mysite.com/joe" would bring up joe's page

(2) Or, going to "www.mysite.com" and then logging in as "joe" would =
present a link to
"www.mysite.com/joe" as "My Home Page".  (Unless there's supposed to be =
some kind of
polymorphic "virtual" link named, eg., "my_home_page" that the system =
knows how to render
for each logged-in user automatically.  This would be rather complicated.)

A flag somewhere would say whether it's public, like (1), or totally =
private, like (2).  Or,
perhaps, the page could have both public and private things on it.  (I =
think this latter bit
is already supported if you've got WObject perms enabled.)

Anyway, this is doable now, but the Admin has to jump through a lot of =
hoops to manually
create the initial page and proper groups and ownership for each user.  To =
do this
automatically (if you don't go the "polymorphic virtual link" route), then =
you need to be
able to: create a new user and group and make the proper associations; =
create a new page
with a specific template (layout); instantiate a predefined Package on =
that page that fits
its template (layout); and finally set the new user as the owner (and =
content manager) of
the page.

It would be doubly great if a new class of user was defined that can =
perform these
operations (eg., "Portal Manger") independently of most other user classes =
(ie, any
Registered User can be ordained a Portal Manager without having to be an =
Admin).

It would be tripley great if this process could be almost entirely =
automated, similar to
signing up as an affiliate and giving the Admin the option of saying =
whether to run this
process automatically, or queue it up somehow pending approval by a Portal =
Manager.

-David

JT Smith wrote:

> After re-reading your post I'm unsure whether my initial impression of =
what you're
> looking to do is correct.
>
> Are you looking to have a way for users to publish their own web site =
within a site sort
> of like sub-sites for each user (for public viewing), or are you looking =
for a place
> where users can set up for their own needs (only they can see it)?
>
> 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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