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FredHutch / shiny-cromwell

Shiny app for interacting with the Fred Hutch instances of Cromwell. Contact Taylor Firman.
https://proof.fredhutch.org
MIT License
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Notifications in the app? #135

Open sckott opened 2 weeks ago

sckott commented 2 weeks ago

from @seankross - explain more if you'd like Sean

tefirman commented 1 week ago

The general idea was to put a "Newsfeed" sidebar/dropdown with updates on the progress of submitted analyses. Super cool idea for users with a ton jobs running at once. My guess is that it would involve some effort within the context of Shiny, so probably a v2.0 feature.

sckott commented 1 week ago

If people think it's important enough that it can't wait for v2 I can look into it for shiny

seankross commented 1 week ago

@sckott no harm in looking into it, dump relevant links here. Not sure this is in scope yet though.

sckott commented 1 week ago

There's a few options, add any others you can think of:

  1. toast notifications, these are the little transient alerts you see often in the bottom right or so of a page when something happens, eg. with shiny I think there's a separate 3rd party package for toasts as well, but seems like built in shiny stuff is fine.
  2. show notifications in a sidebar that's shown/hidden on the click of an icon, e.g., a bell like in MS Outlook

I'm personally not a fan of option 1 as its utility is very dependent on actually looking at the screen when it happens. I suppose you could use toasts but also have a way to look at notifications whenever too