better filter gui at feeds manager

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10/14/2009 12:24:18 PM
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better filter gui at feeds manager

At feeds manager there's the option "Use feeds links as filter" that changes the feeds links list so that instead of each link going to respective website from which feeds come (which you define when you enter new feed) to select which feed to show instead

there are issues with this approach

1) you lose the functionality where you could go to respective feed sites

2) you can't show all feeds again after you filter once (have to go to other page and back maybe)

3) can't filter to aggregate more than one feeds

Better keep the feed links as they were (to go to respective site) and add AJAX checkboxes to select the inputs to the feeds aggreagator, so that one could select multiple feeds there.

Also as extra, maybe remember per user which feeds they checked (if they have unique IDs in db)

10/14/2009 12:26:46 PM
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Re: better filter gui at feeds manager

BTW, didn't notice if there's a way to change the order of entries in the feeds list, not extremely important, but may be useful to organize items for the user to locate and filter more easily related feed sources (group related ones together in the list)

 

This could be available as functionality at Add/Edit feeds dialog (show up/down arrows next to the pencil at each item in the list, but only in that view, not it the view which shows the RSS content cause it would cause visual clutter for users that have editing rights to see all those buttons at the content view)



10/23/2009 3:16:24 PM
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Re: better filter gui at feeds manager

fyi, I've implemented a SortRank property on feeds so you will be able to control the sort in the next release of mojoPortal.

Best,

Joe

10/23/2009 4:22:57 PM
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Re: better filter gui at feeds manager

are there any plans to change it to show (optional) checkboxes for filtering (see my text above)?

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