[Framework-Team] PLIP 244: Portlet management improvements

Danny Bloemendaal danny.bloemendaal at informaat.nl
Fri Oct 17 11:26:03 UTC 2008


On 16 okt 2008, at 17:35, Martin Aspeli wrote:

>  - Create a "site wide" portlet category for portlets that should show
> on all pages (unless blocked).

Then how do you unblock them? If I have such a global portlet and at  
some point a folder blocks the portlets and redefines them and in a  
subfolder you want to have that global portlet showing up again, how  
do you do that? Is it suddenly an addable portlet while it used to be  
a global portlet?

> Currently, people have to use contextual
> portlets at the root of the site for this, which gets cumbersome since
> if you block them in one folder, you need to re-add all portlets in
> subfolders.

As wichert stated, this the argument here is that only the option to  
block all the portlets is actually causing the cumbersomeness here.  
For role-inheritance you see a similar thing but there the reason is  
security related and with a bit of though you will realize it is the  
only way to do it. I'm not convinced that you can't have a scheme of  
blocking portlet on an individual basis. Perhaps with a few UI tweaks  
this is easy to use. Like when you remove a portlet in the manager you  
will be asked to remove it everywhere (up that chain) or just here.
>
>
>  - Improve the contextual "manage portlets" screen so that you can see
> what portlets will disappear/appear when you block/unblock.
>

Sounds good. At least.. if you mean that you can see which portlets  
are there but blocked. (I'm currently working on a design for the  
sharing page that also does this properly).

>  - Add a setting (actually, an annotation) to each individual portlet
> assignment that determines whether it is shown in subfolders or not.
> This will probably need to default to true, at least for migrated  
> sites,
> but may be better off as defaulting to false.

I'm not sure what the default would be. Initially I'd think default to  
True.
Anyway, this setting lessens the need for a way to block individual  
portlets a little bit. It's not the same though.

> This will solve the
> problem of "I want this portlet in this folder, but not all
> sub-folders". Currently, you need to go and block contextual  
> portlets in
> each sub-folder, which is a pain.
>
> Each of these could be implemented separately, although they do go  
> hand
> in hand.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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