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Introducing the faster, sleeker, and improved Messages & Forums tool for Sakai 2.7. This showcase will go over the improvements made to the Messages & Forums tool, including the UI makeover, the new synoptic tool, the many performance improvements and the extra features added for the user. We will also go over the process of becoming an independently released tool.
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Messages & Forums 2.7 Not What You Were Expecting
Bryan Holladay (IU)Megan May – (IU) Gonzalo Silverio (UMich)
June 15, 2010
Introduction
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Today
• Forums Facelift• Overview of additional Forums changes• Messages Overview• Participating in an Indie tool release• Future Plans • Wrap up and Questions?
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UI Makeover
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UI Makeover
• Complex tool: complex and unique needsodeep hierarchical structureoneed for context and detail
what is the shape of the discussionwhat are the properties of individual messageswhat is new, needs attention
• But no Sakai UI idioms to deal with this
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Forum view
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Topic view
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Full thread view
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Single message view
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UI Makeover
A sense of the whole (color coding, indentation)
Message reply
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UI Makeover
Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Forums view
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UI Makeover
Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Topic view
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UI Makeover
Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is new – Thread view
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UI Makeover
Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is pending– Thread view
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UI Makeover
• Help user find a specific item in the collection: what is pending– full thread view
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UI Makeover
Clarifying powerful permissions
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UI Makeover
• Complete accessibility review (WCAG2)
• Other small thingsoWord counts (convenience)oStyled print previews and printing (includes
URLs of any links)oMoved actions to more convenient places
(delete forum or topic from forum view)
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Forums: What’s new in 2.7.0
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New Forum Enhancements
1. New Synoptic Tool2. Performance Improvements3. Direct Linking to Forum Posts4. Mark all as ‘read’ when displaying all
messages*5. Site Participant Notification
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* Optional / Enabled by Property
New Forum Enhancements
6. Display number of users who read post7. View all postings by an individual8. Option to display and sort by last and
recent activity*9. Option to pre-populated default forum
and topic*
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* Optional / Enabled by Property
Synoptic Tool
• Flexible configuration options• Features
• Faster• Direct linking to Sites and Messages &
Forums tool• Sort by user preferences and sort by
column• Users can hide sites
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool
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Synoptic Tool Performance
• Site 1: Represents an extreme use caseoUsers: 34oForums: 205oTopics: 205
• Site 2: Represents an average use caseoUsers: 15oForums: 4oTopics: 7
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*Average and Extreme use cases based off IU production statistics
Synoptic Tool Performance
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My Workspace Synoptic View
Synoptic Tool Performance
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Home Tool Synoptic View
Synoptic Tool Performance
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Forums - Add Thread
Synoptic Tool Performance
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Messages - Send to All Users
Synoptic Tool Performance
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Forum - Update Forum Settings
Synoptic Tool Performance
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Overall Total
Performance Improvements
• Site 1: Represents an average use caseoUsers: 39oForums: 6oTopics: 11
• Site 2: Represents an extreme use caseoUsers: 24oForums: 15oTopics: 351
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*Average and Extreme use cases based off IU production statistics
Performance Improvements
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Forum - Load Statistics
Performance Improvements
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Forum - Load Statistics for one user
Performance Improvements
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Forum - Create Topic
Performance Improvements
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Forum - Load Page
Direct Linking to Forum Posts
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Mark all as ‘read’
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Notification of New Messages
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Read By Feature
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View an individual’s postings
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Display and sort by last and recent activity
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Pre-populated default forum/topic
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* Optional / Enabled by Property
Messages
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Messages: Personal Space
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Messages: Settings
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Messages: Compose
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Messages: Received
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Messages: Individual Message View
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Messages: Sample Email
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Indie Tool Release
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Indi Tool Release
• Technically speaking• Independently Released from Sakai • Using Maven Release Plugin
• Community Interaction• Consensus building on proposed
changes• JIRA project• Release documentation
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In the Future…
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What the future will hold
• Bug fixes
• UCB Usability changes for Messages
• Other community contributions?
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Wrap up & Questions
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