[Building Sakai] Sakai Confluence dashboard

[Ray Davis]

It is most excellent. :)

Thanks,
Ray

On 7/24/09 10:41 AM, Michael Korcuska wrote:
> Okay, strike that.
> 
> The newer version of confluence we're now running has a distinction 
> between a Home page and the Dashboard.  I've set the Home page to the 
> "Welcome to Sakai!" and set the Dashboard to the Dashboard.
> 
> So:
> 
> confluence.sakaiproject.org = Welcome
> confluence.sakaiproject.org/dashboard.action = Dashboard
> 
> How's that?
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:25, Michael Korcuska wrote:
> 
>> Yes, we thought about this Ray.  We're trying to make things easier 
>> for newcomers, even those who have accounts on confluence.  So I don't 
>> think it is a simple as "logged in" or "not logged in".
>>
>> The old dashboard still exists. If you bookmark 
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/DwB3Ag, that should give you what 
>> you used to have.  There should even be a way to set a preference to 
>> make that your default dashboard, but I'm not sure how to do that 
>> exactly. We'll look into it.
>>
>> I'll also say that Pieter Hartsook will be going over all of this 
>> stuff in the next few months, so things may change again.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2009, at 09:35, Ray Davis wrote:
>>
>>> First, many thanks to the new Confluence hosts. The performance seems
>>> snappier to me even though I'm at the campus which hosted it previously.
>>>
>>> Naturally, however, I'm writing to make a suggestion. :) The new
>>> "Welcome" page is excellent, but it's an excellent WELCOME page rather
>>> than an excellent dashboard. I think of a "dashboard" as a site member's
>>> go-to (and easily gone to) spot for what matters most to the member. For
>>> example, my old dashboard showed my favorite spaces, recent updates to
>>> those spaces, and the list of pages I'd marked as "Favorite":
>>>
>>> http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+Dashboard
>>>
>>> Is there any way to make the "Welcome to Sakai!" page the default for
>>> non-logged-in viewers while letting the top-of-every-page "Dashboard"
>>> link point to something more like the old personalized dashboard (with a
>>> prominent link to the welcome page)?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ray
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>> Michael Korcuska
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