[Lizmap] Lizmap Announcement : New Extension

[Arnaud Vandecasteele]

Hi,

Following the announcement of this new extension, I would like to know if
you had the opportunity to try it ?
If so, do you have any comments or suggestions ?

Regards,

Arnaud

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 3:58 PM Arnaud Vandecasteele <arnaud.sig at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been working for the last couple of weeks on a new extension called "
> Lizmap-Announcement <https://github.com/arno974/lizmap-announcement>" [1].
> The main idea behin this extension is to allow the administrator to
> publish news and announcements that will be displayed on a project opening.
>
> *Currently, the main functionnalities are :*
>  - Write an announcement in the administration section : you can select if
> the announcement will be displayed on all the projects of a repository or
> for an individual project. Announcements are stored inside a SQLite
> database.
>  - View/Delete the announcement in the administration section
>  - View the announcement when opening a project that has been configured
> to display an announcement
>  - When a user close an announcement, it will not be displayed anymore
> (unless the announcement is configured as permanent - but not implemented
> yet)
>
> *Things that could be improved/verify:*
>  - I am not yet very comfortable with the jelix extension installation
> mechanism. During the extension installation, I need to copy the SQLite
> database in the
> jApp::configPath('db') path. I've specified some instructions inside the
> install directory (announcementAdmin) but I'm not quite sure that they are
> interpreted.
>  - The announcementAdmin form
> <https://github.com/arno974/lizmap-announcement/blob/main/announcementAdmin/forms/config.form.xml>
> has two options that are not taken into account (permanent and
> display_type) [2]. Despite my different tests, the values are always 0 for
> permanent and empty for display_type. I've already asked the question on
> the jelix forum
> <https://jelix.org/forums/forum/5-jelix-utilisation-et-developpement/posts/12152-10214-form-valeur-de-checkbox-toujours-0#p12158>
> [3].
>  - Add a readme for the github repository project
>
> I would be happy to discuss with the lizmap team about this extension and
> how I can solve the issues about some form options not correctly taken into
> account.
>
> Regards,
>
> Arnaud
>
> [1] https://github.com/arno974/lizmap-announcement
> [2]
> https://github.com/arno974/lizmap-announcement/blob/main/announcementAdmin/forms/config.form.xml
> [3]
> https://jelix.org/forums/forum/5-jelix-utilisation-et-developpement/posts/12152-10214-form-valeur-de-checkbox-toujours-0#p12158
>
>
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> Arnaud Vandecasteele
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