Watchlist Improvements

Version 60.3 by Ecaterina Valica on 2010/07/22 12:31
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Information

 http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XPWATCHLIST-54
Discussed: Standardization of icon usage on actions: http://markmail.org/message/vl5k7tmma6mj7wn6 

Watchlist Improvements

Idea

When we add a new watch to our watchlist we could select what type of content are we interested in:

  • Content Page Modification
  • Page Objects + Settings Modification
  • Comments
  • Attachments

Watchlist.png

Variations

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Old Proposal

Feedback

  • Subscribe button is not an action - it takes you to a RSS page
    • visual consistency with the other notification
  • Watchlist Livetable: Page-Space, Space-Page order
    • Space-Page is more similar to the URL notation
    • Page-Space has more relevance for the end user, less spaces added
  • 15 lines / page for the Livetable pagination
    • not sure there will be so much usage for RSS notifications
    • if there are so many pages - complex filtering, grouping are needed

Analysis

  • Different naming notations:
    •  Watch this page 
    • Watch page: WatchList
    • Watch space: Improvements (but this way offers more information )
    •  Watch this space 
  • Need a way to add pages/spaces to Watchlist without being on that actually page -  Add Watch 
  • Remove from Watchlist =  unwatch  - just like in the menu "Unwatch page/space"
  • Watchlist for Administrator =  My Watchlist  - more personal
  • Space = All pages in the space
    • Mark with  *  or  All 
      • more criptic, but more easy to spot in a list
  • Possibility to  subscribe  to Watchlist or individual interest pages in a single interface, without the need to go to the specific pages

Other features nice to have

  • Unwatch all watched pages with a single click
  • Possibility to filter for the latest modified space/page
    • Show the last modification date
    • Filter by recent
  • Statistics with most active pages / spaces
    • number of lines added
    • number of comments/attachements added
  • See modification type: text, comment, attachement
    • just like the dashboard - but for specific/interest pages/spaces
  • Offer the possibility to enable/disable a page/space watched without deleting it
    • good if you want to create specific RSS feeds, containing just parts of your Watchlist
  • The ability to create multiple Watchlists: on different topics
    • if this would be used on departments: have a Programming Watchlist, a Design Watchlist (i am interested in both)

Proposal

  1. Empty Watchlist WatchListOptionEmpty.png
  2. Watchlist with items WatchListOptionMinimal.png
  3. Add watch option WatchListOptionSemi.png
  4. All options active WatchListOptionFull.png