Issue: Sidebar Manager & Sidebar Permissions

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April 21, 2012 2:19 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Sidebar Manager & Sidebar Permissions

A manager to house the settings for the existing sidebar blocks (as well as custom blocks in the future).

I think a separate database table is better than adding a bunch of new global settings that would take up memory on every page for no reason. We can also add the blocks' settings to the datastore and only load it on wiki pages.

It also allows us to simplify permissions for sidebar blocks since the blocks will have ID numbers.

Some blocks may be better to keep for certain usergroups only, like editors, while others might be suited for anyone. The Sidebar Manager should have its own Permissions section, which can be customized on a per-area basis.

Issue Details

Issue Number 2658

Issue Type Feature

Project VaultWiki 4.x Series

Category Widgets / Sideblocks

Status Implemented

Priority 8 - Major Features / Enhancements

Suggested Version 4.0.0 Alpha 1

Implemented Version 4.0.0 Alpha 1

Milestone VaultWiki 4 Alpha X

Software DependencyAny

License TypePaid

Votes for this feature 1

Votes against this feature 0

Attachments 0

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April 25, 2012 7:14 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Currently working on this. There were some issues with the caching mechanism that slowed this down. Apparently vBulletin has no way to clear Xcache entries for the datastore. Anyway the Manager itself is mainly done, just have to apply the new settings to the parts of blocks they're relevant too, and add the CP action for sidebar permissions.

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April 25, 2012 12:15 PM

Lord Doys

Junior Member

ah cool, based on the one i implemented but needed an extra 3rd party mod?

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April 25, 2012 7:06 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Hm... well right now the wiki sidebar is only on wiki pages, and only contains its own blocks. We just added the manager to handle settings if admins want to tweak any of the blocks that come with VaultWiki. Except for coding, as I mentioned in another thread, there's not going to be a way to create custom blocks in the first release.

I would be curious, aside from a search box, what you have in your custom sidebar that we might consider for a standard block?

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April 25, 2012 11:52 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Permissions, minimally tested, but done and appear to be appending correctly to existing permission sets.

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April 26, 2012 2:37 AM

Lord Doys

Junior Member

I also have the 10 latest wikipages/edits
Currently i have no need of any others besides those two

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April 26, 2012 3:15 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Yeah we already have a block for the 50 latest everything-together. You can set it to show only new pages & edits in the AdminCP.

Anyway this feature is done, the settings are all applied and the filters are finally working correctly against the feed.

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April 26, 2012 1:35 PM

Lord Doys

Junior Member

cheers! looking forward to it

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Issue: Sidebar Manager & Sidebar Permissions

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