Plan: ActionMessages

[AniOnGit]

Create a plan how to implement action messages.

[wwevo]

Still frying my brain about on HOW these shall be implemented.

Have a watcher-program spy on the website to do the job? -> make it a module Shall all modules be altered to cater for the action messages? -> make it a core function

Most functions and actions can be extrapolated by the used url's, a hard-implementation should not be necessary. What would be the more elegant way?

I'd like to keep 'core' as small as possible, as core shall be used for other applications as well maybe become standalone, just saying :)

Need some input here :)

[AniOnGit]

Hmm without in detail knowing the current implementation I would imagine it somehow like this: ActionMessage is a special kind of activity. If I am a module, no matter which one and I want to send ActionMessages based on one of my functionalities I'd need a dependency to the ActionMessages Module. I would go for a trigger-based implementation, here a little example for User Registration case:

• User registration happens in 'user module'
• 'user module' checks if action messages module is available
• 'user module' sends 'ActionMessage' to the 'action messages' module providing the message which should be displayed (for example: 'User123' registered on the guild website - Welcome!').

ActionMessages should look different like other activities, I image them to have no header and be just a plain 'box' maybe in a slightly different color with just some text in it which is provided by the module which own the 'function' that triggered the ActionMessage. So a further requirement would be different kind of activities can also provide different layouts.

While thinking about this I am wondering if ActionMessages aren't a 'core feature' seen in every usual web portal, so maybe they could also be a core function. Then any 'check if module is available' part would not be necessary.

Wall of text ends here.

[wwevo]

I have implemented a bit of code to achieve this however, since shouts do not have a title, how should I refer to them? For events i could state the event title in the action messages, but for shouts?

Could be something like 'a comment has been posted for Ani's shout from 12.09.2016'?

[wwevo]

also, removing action messages for deleted activities has to be implemented

[wwevo]

I feel this feature can be considered implemented. Please open additional Issues for bugs, if you find any and also for feature requests, if you have any ^^