[ckan-dev] User profile vs dashboard and edit profile vs edit settings

Sat Dec 15 00:03:16 UTC 2012

On 14 December 2012 18:53, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hey, I think some user interface reorganisation is probably needed
> around the user profile and dashboard.
>
>
Yeah I agree. I think that they should end up being more combined.  As they
are the `about me` pages.  With things like activity streams in your
profile it feels that the dashboard should be just another tab in the user
pages.

At the moment they feel too disconnected

The way I think about it, your profile is your public page for others to
> see, whereas your dashboard is a private page to help you manage what
> you're doing with ckan.
>
> Currently some private information shows up on your profile page when you
> login: your email address and API key. It seems like these should be
> moved to the dashboard page.
>
> Second, currently when you go to edit profile you can change your public
> information such as username and full name, about text, and also private
> information like your password and (on a feature branch) whether you
> have email notifications on or off. It seems to me that we might want to
> split this into two seperate things:
>
> 1. Updating your public profile, which creates a "seanh updated their
> profile" activity in your public activity stream and on the dashboards
> of anyone following you
>
> 2. Updating private settings like your password, email address, email
> notifications on/off. Currently because these are done on the edit
> profile page, it creates a "seanh updated their profile" activity for
> everyone to see, even if I just changed my email notifications setting
> or password, and didn't change any public information.
>
> User-interface-wise, I'm not sure how we want to implement it. Do we
> actually want two seperate pages 'Edit Your Profile' and 'Edit Your
> Settings'? If so, where do we want to put the navigation links to each?
> Or do we want a single 'Account Settings' page that has e.g. a sidebar
> with links to different pages 'Profile' and 'Account Settings'? That's
> what github does, and it seems like quite a good idea because it's
> extensible, if we have many more settings in the feature we can add new
> sidebar items, instead of cramming everything into one form.
>
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