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Another Important Aspect ..

Authored by: efarmboy on Tuesday, July 02 2002 @ 05:01 pm EDT

Part of making GL 'professional is to allow non technical users administrate GL. They need to be able to easily add/remove functionality. Block and Module developers need to to have a doc-umented and supported method of allowing the GL admin interface to install and de-install the add-on easily.

This would includes items as:

Doc-umented development guidelines

Standard module directory

Module config file

Module languages file with all display text variables

Module admin definitions: requried by GL admin install/de-install

GL version specific patches for auto versioning support

Security group config: Some standard GL definitions here to support GL security model

Module sql updates

Now, the admin tool would automatically detect the new addon and allow admins to install,de-install,activate or de-activate the module/plugin.

Other features and would likes:

Ability for users to edit their comments (noted before)

Private messaging for GL users (plugin idea)

What's new block that knows you and what you've seen

Option to set an alert on a story for changes - more visable then what's new

Option to set limit on RDF feed news items - per block

Ability to setup re-occuring calendar events

Ability for GL users to optionally share calendars

More business look and feel themes

Ability for users to alter the block location and decide on a two or three column view

Ability to define a new view for a topic and select blocks and different layout
Today, you can configure a block to appear for all or specfic topic. This would be the other way around

Ideas meant for constructive dialog - I'm a GL lover as well.

Cheers,
Blaine

Another Important Aspect ..

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, July 05 2002 @ 10:48 am EDT

Can\'t agree more with Blaine on this, especially with respect to module and block support. I\'m currently \"playing\" with GL and think it\'s got great potential (it\'s very fast for me...OS X Server/Apache). *However*, when it comes to installing/activating blocks and modules Postnuke blows it away. Witness what people are having to go through to install Gallery! I\'m not very knowledgeable when it comes to any of this stuff, just knowing enough to be dangerous and stumble through the documentation, and *for me* GL\'s way of getting modules and blocks installed is a hassle. I don\'t mind editing a confg file now and then, but I don\'t want to have to tweak all kinds of files and then spend sometimes hours trying to figure out why they won\'t work. GL really needs a Postnuke like way to simply drop a module folder in the right directory, initialise it, and activate it. Simple. I\'ll be keeping my eye on the CMS, but for now, Postnuke fits my needs better.

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