Forum .LRN Q&A: Proposal to redesign one-community-admin page: make one admin page per portlet

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1: Proposal to redesign one-community-admin page: make one admin page per portlet
Posted by Michael Cordova on 04/24/08 11:58 AM
I'd like to redesign the current one-community-admin page, to show a simpler page.

Last tuesday, it was talked about it on irc meeting.

There is a thread about that in OpenACS forums: https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=1043997

I'm sure that this topic will be interesting for many people, and there will be good ideas for fast and robust implementations.

I have an idea I want to share, to know if it makes sense...
I have been thinking about converting one-community-admin page into a index.vuh file, inside a control-panel folder. Note that names can be different, for convenience, but I'll use that in that message.

That way, urls will be clear, something like... mycommunity/control-panel/forums, instead of mycommunity/?page_num=11 or mycommunity/one-community-admin?portlet=forums

PS: Another link related with that proposal I'm working on: a dotlrn-admin-portlet redesign https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message%5fid=1501061

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2: Re: Proposal to redesign one-community-admin page: make one admin page per portlet (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 04/24/08 02:24 PM
Is there a great demand for this?

If you do it, you'll need to key the url off the applet-key of the portlet I think. You want to do it so that the URL is generated based on what applets are installed and not hard code urls for the applets into the index.vuh.

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3: Re: Proposal to redesign one-community-admin page: make one admin page per portlet (response to 1)
Posted by Emmanuelle Raffenne on 04/24/08 05:43 PM
Hi,

What would happen to options like "Customize portal layout" that do not correspond to any portlet?

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4: Re: Proposal to redesign one-community-admin page: make one admin page per portlet (response to 3)
Posted by Michael Cordova on 04/25/08 01:20 PM
The current dotlrn-admin-portlet would be the main one, the index page.
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5: Re: Proposal to redesign one-community-admin page: make one admin page per portlet (response to 1)
Posted by Michael Cordova on 06/03/08 10:47 PM
I have made an html version of how could be the new dotlrn "one-community-admin-portlet" and the course/community control panel

http://dotlrn.org/zen/control-panel/control-panel.html

Suggestions are welcome.

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6: Re: Proposal to redesign one-community-admin page: make one admin page per portlet (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 06/03/08 11:15 PM
looks nice though I would split it up in four applets:
- group admin
- subgroups
- site wite admin
- applets
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7: Re: Proposal to redesign one-community-admin page: make one admin page per portlet (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 06/07/08 04:12 AM
The approach shown by Miguel seems simple enough for most professors which is what .LRN needs.