Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceUserSidebar

What is UserSideBarBlueSpiceUserSidebar?

UserSideBarBlueSpiceUserSideBar, also previously known as the "Focus lets you generate your sidebar", lets users create their own personal sidebar navigation menu. You can place the functions and articles which you use most there. It is only visible for you.

Where to find the function UserSideBarBlueSpiceUserSidebar?

Every user who is logged on can set up their sidebar individually. The Focus is only visible for this user. You can edit Focus. On the image below are the standard settings:

I will add: "My Pages: TestPage, TestPage2" as you can see on image below:

After saving the focus looks like this:

The functionality of UserSideBar

logged-in user has their UserSidebar. It is located in the left navigation, as the "Personal navigation" tab (clipboard icon).

Usage

In the focus menu point you will initially find the standard settings. Initialy, for users who havent yet customized their personal sidebar, it will show following widgets:

• Pages Visited (widget PAGESVISITED): A list of the pages you have visited most recently. You can set the number on the wiki administration section under Preferences, and in the User Preferencesuser has recently visited.
• My edits (widget YOUREDITS): A list of your recents editspages user recently edited.
• Watchlist (widget WATCHLIST): The list of the pages you are user is watching.

If there is no information for one given category this text will be shown: "no information available". Click on the pen symbol to edit the focus. Add links to articles.

Add new area

These widgets are predefined lists of pages, universaly useful for many users. These widgets can be used when user customizes their sidebar.

Customizing sidebar

Edit sidebar button

In order to customize the content of this sidebar click on "Edit sidebar" button at the bottom of the sidebar. This button is only visible when hovering over the sidebar. The user sidebar can also be customized by visting User:{username}/Sidebar. The page "Sidebar" is dedicated subpage of every user's user page and holds content of the sidebar.

New users, when first visiting this page, may have to create the page first.

Adding custom content

To add a new area, you need to use wiki syntax.

Entries with one star (*) are always interpreted as the headings of areas (analogous to Mediawiki

The syntax used to define the sidebar is same as the one used in main MediaWiki sidebar (MediaWiki:Sidebar).

Entries with two stars (**) are parts of the contents within the area. Double stars (**) not assigned to a single star (*) will be thrown out.

The links do not need the square brackets you would normally use, however you may use them if you want.

You can also add links via the tool, InsertLink, either in wiki code or also in the editor. Example:

                * Title 
** [[Page chosen|Name of the link]]

            

Further functions

The following functions can be used in the sidebar

• PAGESVISITED
• WATCHLIST
• WHOISONLINE
• TOOLBOX
• YOUREDITS

Enties starting with single star ("*") will be considered headings or sections while entries with two stars ("**") will be considered actual entries. To create sidebar that will show section "My favourite pages" and have links to Page1 and Page2 in it, correct syntax would be:

                
* My favourite pages
** [[Page1]]
** [[Page2]]

            

The sidebar can contain multiple sections. Also, users can use widgets to display predefined lists of pages, as described above. Widgets should be inserted as sections (with one star), like:

                
* WATCHLIST
* My custom section
** [[Page1]]
...

            

Available widgets are:

• PAGESVISITED
• YOUREDITS
• WATCHLIST

See also

Our reference page.

Note: Links to non-existent pages will also be shown (as red links). As soon as you click on the title of the page, you can create it. If you have an idea for an article, but do not want to start it straight away, you can write it here using it as a sort of notepad

Reference page for this extension.