Add individual links to sidebar
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Anna Christina Schildberg
Hi there,
I have a similiar request: My customer would like to add another button which leads to the tab "Document Activity" in your own profile (this comes from Comala Document Management and lists all your approvals). As this tab has the same URL for every user, you could simplify the request and say:
We would like to have the possibility to add another button with a custom symbol and custom URL.
Angela Gaida
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Angela Gaida
Ciaira Castorena Sascha Kraatz We have compiled all the necessary information to include individual content in the sidebar. You can find it here: https://info.seibert-media.net/display/DOC/API+for+individual+sidebar+panels
I hope that helps.
Ciaira Castorena
Angela Gaida: Just wanted to follow up to this thread: the workaround provided in that documentation was not a feasible option for us due to the level of dev knowledge needed, so we're having to consider alternatives for maintaining the Popular feed before we can release News Streams. It doesn't seem quite right that if we want to really lean into using Linchpin (in this case, using the Linchpin dashboard instead of the native dashboard view) we have to sacrifice basic Confluence functionality. I'd really like to see this feature request left open for future consideration as it seems a pretty logical add.
Angela Gaida
Ciaira Castorena: I can see your point, so I opened this up for voting again.
Angela Gaida
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Popular feed as a sidebar module
Ciaira Castorena
With the introduction of Linchpin Theme & using the Linchpin Dashboard with News Streams, we're losing access to the Popular feed in Confluence.
Our employees have long used this feed to discover interesting content from across Confluence, and there are a large number of them who will be concerned about the loss of this discovery tool. With the Linchpin dashboard, the URL that ends in /#popular no longer works, so it seems impossible to access the feed aside from using the “Recently Updated Dashboard” macro, which has very poor formatting and doesn’t have a way to feature the Popular feed first.
We anticipate there will still be a large number of users who want to see this feed, both as a transitional aid during the period of adjusting to using News Streams, and as a longer term supplemental view of activity that may not have appeared in their streams.
A desirable solution would be to add the Popular view as a Sidebar module, since that menu already contains modules for similar concepts like All Updates, which typically appear next to Popular in the default Confluence sidebar.
Angela Gaida
Hey Ciaira Castorena, thank you very much for your suggestion.
While I don't think that we'll implement this particular feature in the near future into the product, I still have an idea. The Linchpin Sidebar is built in a way that makes it possible to plug all kinds of macros as tabs into the sidebar. We have some customers who wanted very specific contents in their sidebars, and by providing a modular setup they were able to do that without us changing the product itself.
At the moment there's no "official how-to" for this, but I'll gather the information and probably will put it into the documentation. I'll keep you posted here :)
Best regards,
Angela
Ciaira Castorena
Angela Gaida: we are planning to release News Streams to our production environment in the next month, and solidifying an approach to the Popular feed issue is a requirement for that release. Please let me know as soon as you can share details about the option you mentioned, so that we can test and plan around it. Thanks!
Angela Gaida
Thanks for the suggestion, Sascha Kraatz.
Just to clarify:
Do you mean a new icon for "individual links", and if you click on that, you'll get a list of individual links inside the sidebar?
Or do you mean an individual icon that opens up individual things?
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Sascha Kraatz
Angela Gaida: The last one. Individual links can be realized by the "Apps" function.
We would like to have the opportunity to add individual icons with individual links.
Angela Gaida
Sascha Kraatz: Cool, thanks for clarifying :)