On 07/09/2009, at 10:19 PM, Martin Aspeli wrote:
Dylan Jay wrote:
We're about to embark on creating a site with one main landing
page that will contain grid with a lot of links and small forms
off to external sites. We'd like to have this "dashboard" be
personalised based on group membership such that members of group
A see a slightly different set of "tiles" than group B even though
it's still the same landing page.
At the moment I'm going to go with using
collective.collage.portlets
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+ It lets me use content objects with their existing sharing
permissions to determine what to display
- UI is a little confusing
+ Flexible enough to support several layouts.
>
Just wondering if anyone can anything to my evaluation, or any
gotchas I haven't thought of?
Does this support per-group portlets, or do you need a collage page
per group?
It doesn't seem to use portlets. It lets you create new content
objects into the collage or alias existing content objects from
elsewhere.
So I'm pretty sure I can do it either way.
- create content restricted to be viewed only by certain groups and
then use one collage to aggregate them.
- create many collages each restricted to a group, each referencing
the same content
I've also looked at
Inbuilt Plone personal Dashboard
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- doesn't support group level portlets
+ layout is ok
If you install collective.groupdashboard (being merged into Plone 4)
you can assign per-group portlets to the dashboard (including the
AuthenticatedUsers pseudo-group).
Thanks. I'll have a look at it.
collective.portletpage
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- just 4 slots in main content - not grid like enough.
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- groups would each have to have their own page - no
personalisation on portets themselves.
+ UI is easy
It's not hard to add new portlet managers (slots) if you need it.
Just use portlets.xml + a custom template that shows the new manager.
Products.ContentWellPortlets
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- Not flexible layout. Not grid like
For both this and collective.portletpage you can customise a
template to get a different layout.
Thanks for the tip.
Is there any advantage in using one of the portlet based methods over
collage/content I'm missing though?
Martin
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