After a discussion with a user, I’ve created a little application quickly. It’s aim is to provide a quick access to the recently modified pages (and only pages), with the ability to filter on locations.
It could be seen as a little and very simple alternative to the Activity Stream, that we will rewrite soon, or to the Notifications.
I’ve released it to have some feedbacks, and to see how we could improve the default XWiki interface with such ideas.
So the idea is that you have a new entry on the drawer:
It doesn’t seem very different from Page Index (Main.AllDocs). Do you see some important difference?
How do you handle several modifications to the same page? One entry in the LT or several entries?
I would have used a single LT but with an “Operation Type” column which can be “Created”, “Modifed”, “Deleted”. This make is simpler to have a global overview while still being able to filter.
I’d provide an Action column with a “Diff” button showing the diff for faster access
UI Improvement: avatar of the user having made the change
It’s very similar indeed. I have even taken some code from it. The main difference is that it is sorted by dates by default, so it takes less clicks to see.
It’s not about events, but about pages. And it’s not a stream, but a list. So if the page is modified twice, you will see it only once, with the date of the last modifications.
That’s more the idea of the activity stream revamp that we would like to see happening in a near future
Not that simple, because you cannot know easily from which version you want to generate the diff. Remember that the document could have been modified more than once and the list is the same for all users (no previous dates are stored for each user between visits)
Moreover, going to “Page Index” to see what are the last modified pages is not very natural for users. That is what @oseres explained me after having presented XWiki to potential users.
Now, maybe we should rename Page Index to “Recent (Modified?) Pages” and sort them by dates by default, WDYT?
