Make homebox per user customizable

Hi jakewalk,

I do know this the kind of features most people should be waiting for. I'm thinking about it for a long time now, but I'm always thinking about the best way to implement it. Using FeedAPI and such, but this makes a lot dependencies I think, and I would have to code a submodule which wouldd let users add as many block of one type (Feed block), which for now isn't that easy since the module isn't coded that way.

If you guys have any idea, thought on this, please put them here, I'll be glad to share expenriences.

Thanks,
Jérémy

+1 For users to have the ability to add their own RSS feeds. I don't care so much if they are visible to other users or not - the only problem I can think of is that on large sites, the interface to add items to one's home box would get out of hand if there are hundreds of user-submitted RSS feeds, so some sort of categorization / drop-down would be required.

I took some time and built something that allowed users to add, view, remove feeds through a block. Can find it here: http://drupal.org/project/rss_feeds_block . I tested it with my own machine with Home box and it worked fine. Haven't tested it throughly and I'm still working on it so there might be some problems.

As jackwalk stated, I think customizable homebox page per user is the most important feature of this great module.

I would second the above comment (no 4).

Looking for this feature too. I don't remember how the mysite module did the personal box selection as I only tested D5 briefly, but maybe something like the panels interface which allows allows you to choose site blocks and perhaps add an argument to send to the view blocks. So the user gets a set up personal homepage page which allows them to select blocks they want, add arguments where appropriate and allow them to override the site page if they stay logged in.

+1

because module is tagged as iGoogle ...

There's some heavy discussion going on over at #794728: Re-engineering & Improving Home Box (Exportables, Performance, Features, etc)
It's mainly about improving homebox and one part of it is about Allow "custom content" boxes, too. I'm currently in need of such a solution and willing to contribute dev time to it. Just starting to understand the homebox code and figuring out ideas on how to implement custom widgets per user.

+1 for userspecific homeboxes!
greetings, Martijn

This is my next focus for the 2.x-dev branch. Still unsure about how I plan to implement it. Open to ideas for whoever has looked at the 2.x code.

This is currently in the latest dev but two little bugs still exist. I'm having trouble getting the system to hold on to HTML-rich custom blocks. And the save fails every once in a while. Start testing and see what you can uncover please.

Hi mikestefff,

I tested the latest dev version of homebox. The feature for having Individual homebox for each user working great. :) :)

Thanks for adding the most awaited feature.

However I would like to mention that , the menu item /admin/user/homebox is not available as a menu item, or even on homebox configuration page(admin/build/homebox) . So people may find it difficult to reach this page to do the required configuration. Even I was not able to find this page until I looked at the hook_menu() in .module file.

Please make this link visible somewhere.

Thanks,
Ipsita

Hey..

First, the custom block feature isn't 100% functional yet. There are still some lingering bugs that I'm working on.

Second, I find your menu issues very strange. Try clearing out all of your caches. I have no problem at all with the menus.

Thanks for the feedback. Enjoy the module.

Think of Homebox as a framework. Make/use a module that provides a block of user-entered feeds and you're done.