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cheesegrits
06-16-2006, 02:45 PM
I'm fairly sure this is a feature request rather than a how to, but ...

Is there any way to allow users to add "personal" links, which are only visible to that user, which aren't subject to the global "no duplicate links" setting, and could be collected together in a CMPS module? Somewhat like the Calendar allows individual event entries, visible only to the user who created them.

In another thread I talked about building a My Links widget based around the "My Stuff" favorites. I got that going, so I have a CMPS module which lists an individual users favorites on the Home page. But this doesn't exactly do what my users want.

Ideally, I'd like a "special" category for "My Links", which is keyed to the individual user, so each user sees only "their" links in that category, from which I can build the CMPS module(s) I need. Links added in this category would only be visible to the user who added them.

The reason for all this should be fairly obvious. We're using this as a portal, and users want to be able to use it as their default browser page, and be able to use it as a jumping off point for their favorite links. Especially if they are on the road and don't have their own browser's Favorites handy.

Of course, another really useful feature would be the ability to import a favorites list into their My Links, exported from their browser. But that's as secondary wish!

-- hugh

KW802
06-16-2006, 03:30 PM
HHHHmm..... no easy & quick way that I can think of. I've seen a few people do a 'personal links' module with the use of vB Custom Fields but haven't seen anybody do one yet for vBa Links.

Essentially what you're describing is the ability for vBa Links to have "Members Categories" or ("Albums" to use the gallery terminology) that could be private and then to create a CMPS module to retrieve the contents of the category associated to the user that is currently logged in.

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cheesegrits
06-16-2006, 10:53 PM
Essentially what you're describing is the ability for vBa Links to have "Members Categories" or ("Albums" to use the gallery terminology) that could be private and then to create a CMPS module to retrieve the contents of the category associated to the user that is currently logged in.

Exactly!

I've already built a CMPS module which shows the users "My Stuff" favorites, which goes some way to achieving what I want. I basically stole the relevant code from the links script that builds the existing Favorites table on the Links page, and reconstructed it to build a much simpler list of just the link names as URL's to the target.

But I would really like to be able to offer the "Personal" hotlinks stuff. The main reason being that I'm sure most of my users don't want everyone knowing what URL's they consider their favorites, LOL! Which is another reason for having that special category, so I could set it to not require approval. We currently require approval of all submitted links, but would not require this for a category only viewable by the uploading user.

Personally I think this would be a good feature to add to this product, but I may go ahead and try and hack something together if y'all don't think it is something that would make it into a release any time soon.

-- hugh

KW802
06-17-2006, 01:53 PM
No promises but I'll suggest it to Brian as a future revision idea.

I can see that something like that would have some appeal to sites where they are trying to make their site be their visits main portal to the net.

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KW802
06-17-2006, 01:53 PM
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cheesegrits
06-17-2006, 04:27 PM
No promises but I'll suggest it to Brian as a future revision idea.

Thankyou. That's all I ask, is that you give it some serious consideration.

I can see that something like that would have some appeal to sites where they are trying to make their site be their visits main portal to the net.

That's exactly what we're trying to achieve. We're a regional ISP, with about 10k users. I still have a ways to go in fully integrating the various products and hacks, and creating a true, personalized "portal". I'm getting there, tho.

Thanks for your time, and for understanding what I'm trying to achieve!

-- hugh