More Dashboard Widgets

[BKapelari]

I would like to add more widgets to the Nextcloud Dashboard.
For exaple: Today, Tomorow, this week. Today for user XYZ (Only if I'm Admin and he is not), and so on.

Ist there a easy way to do this? Were can I find the responsible classes and functions (beside lib/Dashboard/DeckWidget.php)?

[juliusknorr]

I think that would be nice to have (cc @Clementine46 @jancborchardt for design/UX input)

Just a general note, curently we don't have a way to register a generic widget type (today for user x) that can be added to the board multiple times. So the only way i would see for this would be to have one widget for the "today by user" and add a user selector to the widget itself, which we would need to talk about how this could be designed first.

The widget class in https://github.com/nextcloud/deck/blob/c87c37f385253829402c6f01b1081e405bc531f1/lib/Dashboard/DeckWidget.php need additional registration in

deck/lib/AppInfo/Application20.php

Line 129 in 93993f8

$context->registerEventListener(BeforeTemplateRenderedEvent::class, BeforeTemplateRenderedListener::class);

The frontend is handled in

deck/src/init-dashboard.js

Lines 53 to 60 in aa24410

	OCA.Dashboard.register('deck', (el) => {
	const View = Vue.extend(Dashboard)
	const vm = new View({
	propsData: {},
	store,
	}).$mount(el)
	return vm
	})

and the Dashboard Vue component in https://github.com/nextcloud/deck/blob/a9d00f226def7dbbec2a5549431395b34dde595f/src/views/Dashboard.vue

[BKapelari]

Thank you for the quick respond!

Just a general note, curently we don't have a way to register a generic widget type (today for user x) that can be added to the board multiple times. So the only way i would see for this would be to have one widget for the "today by user" and add a user selector to the widget itself, which we would need to talk about how this could be designed first.

indeed, that was exactly what I had in mind. Is it posible to add the same widget multible times in Nextcloud?

[juliusknorr]

You can only have one instance per widget class. For any extension of that we'd need to think about how we can enhance the server API in that regard. From a general perspective that would make sense I'd say (e.g. for social media widgets you maybe want one widget for each account you have)

Would you mind to open a separate issue for that in https://github.com/nextcloud/server/ so we can discuss this there?

FYI @eneiluj

[BKapelari]

Shure, I did here

[BKapelari]

@juliushaertl is there still something to do for me or can we leave it like it is?