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Subject:Re: What would you call this portlet? From:NuVision Communications <nuvisioncomm -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Gregory P Sweet <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us> Date:Tue, 3 Apr 2012 16:29:40 -0400
I was just thinking you could do something like Hotlist or Hot List or Hot
Stuff to differentiate it from the "My" also. Lots of possibilities....
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Gregory P Sweet <gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us>wrote:
>
> Thanks all for the good suggestions and advice. I like the My Activity
> suggestion the best, but will be bringing the thread to the design group.
> We already have a My Applications, My Favorites, and My Account so My
> Activity fits right in with the existing scheme. The difference between
> what we've got and the new portlet is active verses passive. A user must
> take action to add a doc to My Favorites or an app to My Applications, but
> the new protlet will be passive and just show a list of what they've looked
> at recently or frequently.
>
> Apologies if it was not clear in my earlier post that this will be a
> personal list, different for each user.
>
> The portal code is pretty limiting and I just came from a meeting with our
> lead developer and she stated that the code does not permit
> variable/dynamic titles for the portlets so we have to pick something
> static. It is indeed folding four portlets into one, but that's what we've
> got space for so now the trick is to come up with the most usable design
> for it that we can. having a good clear name helps quite a bit.
>
> Now off to do my paper prototypes!
>
> Thanks again
>
> -Greg
>
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