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Unread Message and Forums widget should be organized by message type, not show sites without any activity

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Problem: The tabular display is hard to read:
a) Unread messages and forums displays rows for every active site, even if there is no activity in those tools (and even if those sites have neither the Messages or Forums tools) making for a very long table
b) if the site has activity in one tool but not the other, it wastes space.
c) Making site name into a link that takes you to the site home detracts user attention away from direct links to messages and forums for that site.
d) most importantly, it's not organized the way users think; they don't think about site first, they just want to know if they have any personal messages that need attention, then, less pressing, any forums that are interesting or might need a response

Solution: Display sites only when they actually have activity in the tool and reorganize into New Messages and New in Forums (see attached pdf) and sort by "Most messages."

Will ask developer to upload code.

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Keli Amann November 19, 2012 at 2:02 PM

Thanks go to Jing for actually implementing design. The sort order is not stored, but default could be set. Re all sites property, we could probably add that property before contributing. Ping Jing when it's time to get going, she's working on the 2.9 upgrade.

Bryan Holladay November 19, 2012 at 5:44 AM

+1 looks good. Does the user's selected setting get saved when change? Also, there is one school, Seminole St, that hides all the site tabs from their students and uses the Msgcntr Synoptic tool as their site navigation. I would suggest having the following added:

-Add a property that will allow institutions to toggle "all sites" (default to false so that only sites with messages shows by default)

We'll have to do a code review to make sure this is efficient code since this tool is a risky tool to modify.

Lynn Ward November 17, 2012 at 6:06 AM

Ditto!

Jose Mariano Lujan November 17, 2012 at 1:02 AM

Seems like a great improvement! +1 to adding this feature to the synoptic tool. Thanks!

Michelle Wagner November 16, 2012 at 3:37 PM

Thank you for your thoughts and work, Keli. This looks like a significant improvement.

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Created November 15, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Updated August 1, 2017 at 12:28 PM