[TYPO3-hci] Focus on the user not the tech

[Alex Heizer]

Andreas Balzer wrote:
> Valery Romanchev schrieb:
>   
>> Why curent Task Center is not good?
>> It does not have 2 things: - configurable "Welcom page" with possibility to
>> add texts per BE-user or per BE-group (it it good to have this as records
>> with RTE field) - good design and navigation. I think old Task Center design
>> was better!
>>     
> Well, actually it doesn't help you to get things done. 
>   
Actions help you get things done. Or rather, at least for me, they help 
me get things done, and I start up in the task center when I log in and 
all my common actions are there. Simple.

> Ok, you have a 
> simple message system (that isn't able to store YOUR contacts, classify 
> your messaqges etc, but displaying all contacts, etc.. Then it's only 
> showing some opened and modified pages, not so much.. I think it has to 
> be modified, so that it can help you to get something done. Display 
> things you do often, you want to do and it should display informations 
> on how to do that.
>   
+1 -- the key here is the word "modified". The task center already has a 
strong foundation, it was just never fully completed and there's very 
little documentation. In the "don't reinvent the wheel" department, 
having a solid foundation that just needs to be finished with the 
correct functionality is much more preferable to starting over from 
nothing and rebuilding what you already have today before adding more 
features.

>> With this 2 things - Task Center can solve the major problem of "Starting
>> page"
>>     
> In my opinion it can't. The messagesystem is bad - as described above - 
> and it doesn't really help you to do specific tasks. It just shows 
> uninteressting infos..
> nice
>   
The message system? Perhaps. The entire task center? I disagree, because 
actions already help you do specific tasks. Again, the core is there, it 
just needs to be refined to work the way it needs to.

Alex