Wagtail dashboard enhancements #8325
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This would add huge value to the dashboard. And really nice ui drafts... |
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Awesome work!
This is the best reasoning. |
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Really like the idea of improving the dash. For me the 'vital statistics' aren't really that helpful here. hierarchically I would reduce these a whole bunch. As an editor the things I think would be most useful would be:
alerts for engagement drop off or spikes, 404 errors etc each for a definable time period with sensible defaults (last seven days feels appropriate to me). As an editor I would want to look at these daily and having them in the dash would add massive value to Wagtail. One thing I find with Google Analytics is that many editors are often scared by the complexity and not sure how to interpret it but these simple metrics would support people in creating much better content and UX. I think one approach would be to only include things that are instantly actionable from a content perspective and use analytics for the long term analysis. If we could also have some automated 'human' tips similar to those on Filament.io that would be awesome. Equally this is the sort of stuff I've had to spend a lot of time pulling off into SMT reports in the past and if we could help editors automate this type of thing that would be great. The main thing here will be finding the appropriate Wagtail balance of simple, beautiful but also immensely valuable so we'll want to avoid overwhelming editors with numbers and lists. One other thing that's missing from these UI designs is the moderation section. |
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For anyone wanting to work on this, we’ve recently discussed similar topics in a team meeting and @allcaps summarized our take in #1891 (comment). To make progress on this issue in particular, I would suggest to treat the following separately:
In particular, personally I would find it valuable already to see a blog post / recipe / documentation on how to make a custom panel to start with. |
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I’m going to convert this to a Discussion now, to give this a bit more visibility, and reflect the fact there isn’t a really clear point at which this will be "done". |
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👋 for anyone interested in this, just wanted to mention we’re intending to improve the dashboard in the upcoming August release of Wagtail. We’ve not yet explored which improvements would be most beneficial – feedback is most welcome. |
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From @vossisboss in v5.1* roadmap discussions:
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I oversee a number of web sites but am not primarily a content producer on any of them. What I want to know when I log into a site is what pages where edited most recently (by anyone, not just me) and when was the last time any of the site users have logged in. |
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Here's an update on how we have been exploring ways in which the dashboard can be enhanced.
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Suggestion by @Azemblage in #11155 to surface CMS comments on the dashboard. In particular if we had comments with mentions to specific users (expanding upon the idea of the dashboard as an "inbox" of sorts). Currently I don’t believe we surface comments anywhere in the UI except from the editing experience. Even just having a count in some places (page listings? workflow-related listings?) could be a nice improvement. |
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Drag & Drop / Reordering of panelsThis was discussed briefly at a core team meeting but just wanted to add a few notes / sub-thread about this.
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Is it okay if i research on best practices and how other projects create accessible charts? |
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The Wagtail dashboard currently doesn't deliver as much value as it could do given, after login, that it's the first thing a user sees.
I think this relates to ticket #575, and the idea of being a next step after #1891
No solutions here, and is based around what I would find beneficial when I'm working as an editor in Wagtail. I wanted to share these to start the conversation around this and what others felt should be on the dashboard.
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would show a maximum of eight recent items in total (e.g. three more than currently being shown here)Populated version using existing style guide
Above a rough view of what it could look like if implemented using the existing UI styleguide.
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