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Extend the dockbar to show new announcements

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I was confronted with the issue to inform users about new alerts and announcements which don't have an email account. Besides reloading a page with visible announcement portlet, there is no way to do so at the moment. I know about the option in social office to show news in the dockbar so I created a struts action hook to implement a similar feature. The project source is attached to this ticket.

As you can see in the attached image, this feature shows counts for alerts and announcements. Alerts are only visible if there's >0 entries and announcements are visible always. If there are no announcements, it's blue with white text, otherwise it's red with black text. Clicking on the text (except if it shows 0 announcements) will link to the maximized portlet.

The checkboxes for showing announcements on the website at the users "My Account" setting now is available. This feature is not fully implemented because this hook just checks if the checkbox for "general" is enabled. If it's enabled, the dockbar shows these announcement counts, otherwise it doesn't show anything.

The interal for checking the counts is set to 1 minute in code. An option to allow admins to set the interval would be a good idea.

Moreover this hook highlights unread (red border) and important (red title) announcements.

It would be nice to have something like this in the core implementation for the announcements plugin.

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Jorge Ferrer added a comment -

Thanks a lot for the contribution David.

This seems very similar to the notifications feature of Social Office. Have you seen it? Is it related to it somehow?

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Jorge Ferrer added a comment - Thanks a lot for the contribution David. This seems very similar to the notifications feature of Social Office. Have you seen it? Is it related to it somehow?
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David Kubitza added a comment -

Hi Jorge,

I know about this feature in SO but it seems somehow oversized to install the whole SO Plugin to just get this feature. I didn't check the source for SO so it's not related at all, just my own solution for my issue.

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David Kubitza added a comment - Hi Jorge, I know about this feature in SO but it seems somehow oversized to install the whole SO Plugin to just get this feature. I didn't check the source for SO so it's not related at all, just my own solution for my issue.
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Edward Gonzales added a comment -

David, thanks for your active participation in coming up with this New Feature! Thanks for also including a png. We will keep you posted with any information regarding the implementation of this New Feature.

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Edward Gonzales added a comment - David, thanks for your active participation in coming up with this New Feature! Thanks for also including a png. We will keep you posted with any information regarding the implementation of this New Feature.
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Edward Gonzales added a comment -

Hi David, I have good news for you! We do plan to implement something similar to this New Feature in master, but not exactly like the one you have described. The issue has not been created. I will keep this issue open until we create a new issue. Thanks for your participation!

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Edward Gonzales added a comment - Hi David, I have good news for you! We do plan to implement something similar to this New Feature in master, but not exactly like the one you have described. The issue has not been created. I will keep this issue open until we create a new issue. Thanks for your participation!
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David Kubitza added a comment -

Hi Edward, this is great! What would be the differences to my implementation?

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David Kubitza added a comment - Hi Edward, this is great! What would be the differences to my implementation?
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Edward Gonzales added a comment -

Hi David! At the moment it is an idea, so we won't fully know until the ticket is created. Stay tuned!

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Edward Gonzales added a comment - Hi David! At the moment it is an idea, so we won't fully know until the ticket is created. Stay tuned!
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Randy Zhu added a comment -

In preparation for Ideation; we are moving this contributed solution tickets to “Feature Request”. Additional information to follow.

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Randy Zhu added a comment - In preparation for Ideation; we are moving this contributed solution tickets to “Feature Request”. Additional information to follow.

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