card collections/dashboard

[jakobroehrl]

Signed-off-by: Jakob [email protected]

• Target version: vue

Added some collections, and it's working so far :)
Could you give me your feedback @juliushaertl ?

• There is now redundant code from the card view
• The Router could be better, I think
• Fetching the data is not really fast, should I try to solve this on the server or client side?
• Any ideas how to change the code, if we have filtering and searching in mind?

Thanks a lot! :)

I think I would use this view in #1315, too.

[jancborchardt]

Nice! :) Some design feedback:

• The counters of "Due soon" and "Assigned to you" should use the counter on the right of the row as defined in the component
• No categorization and indentation is needed. Simply do a flat list with

  • Due soon
  • Assigned to you (we always use "you", never "me" in the interface)
  • All cards
    space
  • Board 1
  • Board 2
  • …

[ardarandir]

Hi, we would love this collections/dashboard feature to go live for productive use. I don't quite get when we can expect that to happen. Would you be so kind as to give me any kind of estimation? We are using Deck 0.7.0 on Nextcloud 17 (stable). Thanks in advance!

[jakobroehrl]

Hi, we would love this collections/dashboard feature to go live for productive use. I don't quite get when we can expect that to happen. Would you be so kind as to give me any kind of estimation? We are using Deck 0.7.0 on Nextcloud 17 (stable). Thanks in advance!

@ardarandir
We have to finish the vue migration first. There is no progress it the last weeks because of other priorities. Sorry, can't give a an estimation. Would love to see this feature, too :)

[juliusknorr]

In addition to the comments by @jancborchardt I think we should try to keep the main content view stay in a similar card based layout as the regular board view has.

I don't see a good use case for an all cards view, as this would basically be just a long endless list without any proper filtering. We should aim to provide lists that give users a good overview or help them to find the relevant cards more easily.

Due date view

The assigned to me list could also be grouped by duedates, as this is most likely what the priorization is done by. In addition we could allow users to apply custom filters on those lists with #414

cc @nextcloud/designers

[juliusknorr]

Rebased and changed base branch to master

[alexanderdd]

Not sure how you resolve conflicting feedback around here?
Personally, I agree with #1319 (comment) and while I think #1319 (comment) has a good point, I think this should not stand in the way of merging this pull request.

Or is the only thing missing now the "Review required"?

Thanks.

[juliusknorr]

Or is the only thing missing now the "Review required"?

No, we definitely should address the mentioned points before merging. 😉

[juliusknorr]

Not sure how you resolve conflicting feedback around here?

Let's see if @jancborchardt and @nextcloud/designers have any comments on my additions.

[jancborchardt]

Agree with everything said by @juliushaertl in #1319 (comment) :)

Only thing is that I’m not sure the list layout should use the card style, as that’s too many containers for a single-row layout. I tend towards doing it like @jakobroehrl above or as in the Tasks app.

cc @raimund-schluessler as this now gets very close into the same territory as Tasks and we should coordinate how best to move forward together. :) As @jakobroehrl mentioned, the other tools all go in the direction of just having views for the "to dos", instead of different apps: See Microsoft Tasks in Teams, Asana, Ticktick, Todoist, Ora, Zenkit, …

[juliusknorr]

Back to the original topic of the pull request, I would suggest we go for a card based approach as well for now, as once boards are exposed as calendars with #1545 we could redirect the user to the tasks app showing the cards in a list as a first starting point.

[jakobroehrl]

There are a lot of the same functionality in Deck and Tasks eg:

• assign to user
• share with user, group, circle
• comments
• attachments
• tags
• activity
• due dates
• filter, sort
• collections (dueToday, assignToMe, ...)

I think it's easier to interate a list/table view in Deck than duplicate and maintain the hole functionality in two apps.

[alexanderdd]

So what will happen to this pull request? Merge or decline (if thats the right word)?

Path1
@juliushaertl proposed to use a card layout instead #1319 (comment)

Path2
@jancborchardt - I thi k he said he likes the row style as proposed in this pull request, but some minor improvements are needed (these #1319 (comment))

Which path will we continue? (I am never sure how decisions are made here...)

[juliusknorr]

So what will happen to this pull request? Merge or decline (if thats the right word)?

Well, the discussion drove a bit into details that are actually part of #15 but are of course related to the lists. My comment from #1319 (comment) still stands. So with that and the plan we came up with in #15 I think reusing the tasks app for any list view would make the most sense here.

Which path will we continue? (I am never sure how decisions are made here...)

We usually try to find a solution that is somehow common sense in the end. Let me quote our code of conduct here:

Be pragmatic
Nextcloud is a pragmatic community. We value tangible results over having the last word in a discussion. We defend our core values like freedom and respectful collaboration, but we don't let arguments about minor issues get in the way of achieving more important results. We are open to suggestions and welcome solutions regardless of their origin. When in doubt support a solution which helps getting things done over one which has theoretical merits, but isn't being worked on. Use the tools and methods which help getting the job done. Let decisions be taken by those who do the work.
https://nextcloud.com/contribute/code-of-conduct/

[juliusknorr]

I think we drifted away from what this pull request was actually about - the dashboard to give quick access to important cards.

Let me summarize what I think the consent was:

• Due dates - A column view makes most sense here as we can have the due date categorization as different columns here.

• All cards - does not have a real use case -> Let's remove that one

Open questions:

Assigned to me

Only thing is that I’m not sure the list layout should use the card style, as that’s too many containers for a single-row layout. I tend towards doing it like @jakobroehrl above or as in the Tasks app.

I was not arguing for a single row layout but to still provide some sort of grouping for the dashboard overview, like this:

The assigned to me list could also be grouped by duedates, as this is most likely what the priorization is done by.

[juliusknorr]

Continued in #1934