Dylan Jay wrote:
> We're about to embark on creating a site with one main landing page
> that will contain grid with a lot of links and small forms off to
> external sites. We'd like to have this "dashboard" be personalised
> based on group membership such that members of group A see a slightly
> different set of "tiles" than group B even though it's still the same
> landing page.
>
> At the moment I'm going to go with using
> collective.collage.portlets
>
> ---------------------------------
> + It lets me use content objects with their existing sharing
> permissions to determine what to display
> - UI is a little confusing
> + Flexible enough to support several layouts.
>
> Just wondering if anyone can anything to my evaluation, or any gotchas
> I haven't thought of?
Does this support per-group portlets, or do you need a collage page per
group?
> I've also looked at
>
> Inbuilt Plone personal Dashboard
> --------------------------------------------
> - doesn't support group level portlets
> + layout is ok
If you install collective.groupdashboard (being merged into Plone 4) you
can assign per-group portlets to the dashboard (including the
AuthenticatedUsers pseudo-group).
> collective.portletpage
> ----------------------------
> - just 4 slots in main content - not grid like enough.
>
> - groups would each have to have their own page - no personalisation
> on portets themselves.
> + UI is easy
It's not hard to add new portlet managers (slots) if you need it. Just
use portlets.xml + a custom template that shows the new manager.
> Products.ContentWellPortlets
> ---------------------------------------
> - Not flexible layout. Not grid like
For both this and collective.portletpage you can customise a template to
get a different layout.
Martin
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