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This plugin introduces highly customizable widgets and sets of layouts for groups.

vazco_groupwidgets

Author: vazco

This plugin introduces highly customizable widgets and sets of layouts for groups. Administrator can create standard layouts of widgets. Group owners can choose from preset layouts, or create their own. Multiple new, usefull widgets for groups are available.

 

This plugin works with standard Elgg, with profile_manager and/or flexgroupprofile.

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Tags: settings, create, require, forms, notice, required, use, widgets, supported, installation, run

Description

HOW IT LOOKS:

After installing the plugin, you will gain access to a new panel in administration, where you'll be able to set sitewide group layouts:

Those layouts can be later used by creators and owners of groups. ( If required, you can set a plugin to allow your users to create custom layouts, separate for each group as well.)

 

This is a preview of a layout:

 

 

This is a form of creating a new layout:

You'll notice some widgets are marked in orange. Those are widgets that are supported by plugin, though require other common plugins to run. Since we plan to add a large numebr of widgets to teh plugin in the future, this feature may occur very usefull. You can make those widgets invisible in settings.

Those are plugin settings:

 

When a group is created or edited, user can have two options. He can either choose the layout that admin created, or create his own layout. All layouts generate AJAX-loaded preview when chosen:

 

This is a panel for custom layout for groups:

You'll notice all widgets have visibility settings. Those settings allow to set who should see the widget on the group's page. This allows for a better customization:

 

 

The plugin runs well with:

  • profile_manager
  • forms

 

Supported widgets so far:

  • Bookmarks
  • blogs
  • Tag cumulus
  • XGadgets (vazco_xgadget plugin)
  • Checklist (vazco_checklist)
  • Products (socialcommerce plugin)
  • Group news (vazco_group_news plugin)
  • Group forums (vazco_groupforum plugin)

 

  • Latest group discussions
  • Events (event_calendar)
  • Videos (Kaltura)
  • Videos (izap_videos)
  • Pictures (Tidypics)
  • Documents (Pages)
  • Group members
  • Files
  • Polls
  • More to come!

Each time a new version of plugin from the list above appears, it's widget will be auto-updated. No more maintenance required here!

INSTALLATION:

 

  • place in  mod folder and enable
  • In case you use profile_manager of forms plugin, place vazco_groups below those plugins on the plugin list


Supported Elgg versions: 1.5, 1.6, 1.7

Plugins from Elggdev are often updated for free once newer versions of Elgg is released. This is not a rule though. Some of the less popular plugins will be updated with a delay. You can speed up this process by funding the update.

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