Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceUserSidebar

The extension UserSideBar lets users create their personal sidebar navigation.

Where to find the function UserSideBar? What is UserSideBar?

UserSideBar, also known as the Focus lets you generate your own personal navigation menu. You can place the functions and articles which you use most there. It is only visible for you.

Accessing the personal navigation

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

Personal navigation

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

Default content

In the focus menu point you will initially find the standard settings.

Pages Visited (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 Preferences

Initially, for users who haven't customized their personal sidebar, the navigation shows the following widgets:

• Pages visited (widget PAGESVISITED)
• My edits (widget YOUREDITS): A list of your recents edits.
• Watchlist (widget WATCHLIST): The list of the pages you are 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 can be removed individually when a user customizes the sidebar.

Customizing the sidebar

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

customize the content of this sidebar, click on Edit sidebar at the bottom of the sidebar after hovering over any menu item. This opens the page User:<username>/Sidebar.

The syntax used to define the sidebar corresponds to the main MediaWiki sidebar (MediaWiki:Sidebar).

Entries starting with

two stars

a single star ("*

*) 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

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.

") are considered menu headings or sections while entries with two stars ("**") are considered menu items.

                
* My favourite pages
** [[Wiki_Page1|Label]]
** [External_Page2 Label]

            

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]]
...

            

Related info

• Reference:BlueSpiceUserSidebar