Reference:BlueSpiceUserSidebar

The 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.

Where can I find the function UserSideBar?

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 image below are standard settings:

I will add: ""My Pages: Main Page, Blog" as you can see on image below:

Save and I will get for my focus:

The functionality of UserSideBar

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
• My edits (YOUREDITS): A list of your recents edits.
• Watchlist (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

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

Entries with one star

Extension: BlueSpiceUserSidebar

Overview
Description:	Customizable personal navigation menu
State:	stable	Dependency:	BlueSpice
Developer:	HalloWelt	License:	GPL-3.0-onlyProperty "BSExtensionInfoLicense" (as page type) with input value "</br>GPL-3.0-only" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.
Type:	BlueSpice	Category:	Personalization
Edition:	BlueSpice free, BlueSpice pro, BlueSpice Farm, BlueSpice Cloud
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Features

UserSideBar lets users create their own personal sidebar navigation.

• The content under Focus in the Users' Home Bar can be customized by the user.
• Extensions can provide a tag over which content is displayed, currently the following pages are shown by default:

• • PAGESVISITED
  • YOUREDITS (own edits)
  • WATCHLIST
• Users can also create their own areas:
  • Entries with an asterisk (*) are always interpreted as

the

• • area headings

of areas (analogous to Mediawiki:Sidebar

• • (analog mediawiki: sidebar).
  • Entries with two stars (**) are

parts

• • content elements of the

contents within the

• • area.

Double stars

• • Single (**)

not assigned to a single star

• • without assignment to (*)

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]]

            

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.

Try it!

BlueSpice Demo

Further functions

The following functions can be used in the sidebar

PAGESVISITED

WATCHLIST

WHOISONLINE

TOOLBOX

YOUREDITS

• • are discarded.
  • The pages are determined as in the Mediawiki: Sidebar by URL

Technical Information

This information applies to BlueSpice 3 . Technical details for BlueSpice cloud can differ in some cases.

Requirements

• MediaWiki: 1.31

• BlueSpiceFoundation: 3.2

Integrates into

• BlueSpiceUserSidebar

Special pages

Hooks

• BeforePageDisplay
• EditFormPreloadText
• SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec