Home Tab: Project, Features, & Layouts

[plan9]

According to the "What's New" link (http://www.zimbra.com/products/whats_new.html), there is now a Home Tab that can be configured. Where's it located at?

[mmorse]

Most of that stuff is custom work being done for large service providers (for instance /blog/archives/2007/05/comcast_zimbra_future_of_unified_messaging.html) but I've attached a pic of the example portal that's included for you to play with

To get you started:
Checkout your /opt/zimbra/mailboxd/webapps/zimbra/portals/
zmprov ma user@domain.com zimbraFeaturePortalEnabled TRUE
zmprov ma user@domain.com zimbraPortalName example
It can be applied to COS's as well - I would suggest working on a devel box or test account first of course
You can find some JSP tags (JavaServer Pages) in /opt/zimbra/mailboxd/zimbra/WEB-INF/tags/ (the 'mobile' folder contains some good examples)

We haven't yet rolled this out with a standard design or documentation - but you're more than welcome to write a community guide from what you can come up with on your own!

For things like voicemail & home portals, huge providers/organizations should contact their sales rep if they need to purchase professional services. Just please don't bog down the support staff with tickets about this - as this isn't a 'regular' feature yet.

[Mark Daniel]

WOW! I have to say that while I am no fan of Outlook in any way, the Today screen in Outlook is a good idea, and it looks like this "Home screen" feature has even more potential. I'd love to see more examples! (that work, of course).

[p24t]

This looks great, people love summary pages. If it's customizable, all the better as far as I'm concerned.

Looking forward to the docs.

[peng1can]

So, if this is not a "regular feature", then why document it in the What's New guide? I don't mean to sound like a jerk... it just seems odd to announce a feature and then tell us not to use it. Just something the Zimbra folks might bear in mind for the future.

[peng1can]

Also, when enabling the example portal, mine looks more like this...

[lapplegate]

Originally Posted by peng1can

Also, when enabling the example portal, mine looks more like this...

I get the same thing if I'm in the Ajax client; when I switch to the HTML client, then I get a home page that looks like the one that Mike posted.


Lisa

[mmorse]

Thanks Mark & p24t! We think it's got great potential too & there's even more cool stuff in the works than ever before!

When you guys (& gals!) got some mock-ups or a consolidated list of wanted features ready, might be a good idea to create an RFE for people to track & show support.

So, the "ability to enable a welcome page view in the web clients" is what's completed right now; & you can certainly certainly keep your organization up to date with news and information via static content on that tab. We defiantly know that making it into a portal or today page will be really sweet - but don't let "just voting for the RFE" keep it from rising as a community project though!

Example:

-This is attempting to integrate Liferay.

[mmorse]

If you want us to roll one out, it's time to show some love: Bug 24551 - Home Tab GA - Requested Layouts & Features (some other good one's linked in there to vote for as well)

Another example:

-Some jumping off points for it:
script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript
Prototype JavaScript framework: Easy Ajax and DOM manipulation for dynamic web applications
(I'll see if I can get the customer to share it...)

Edit-
MOTD on the outside: [SOLVED] AJAX Ticker On Login Page

[p24t]

Round 2:
-Easily updated message area; where the admin simply updates a notices.txt (a
good alternative to bug 23813 splash screen on login)

You know, Mike.. a MOTD would be extremely awesome.