[rt-users] Wiki Contrib - Saved Searches on RT Home Page

[Stephen Turner]

>At Friday 1/14/2005 04:22 PM, John Stoffel wrote:
>
>>Stephen> At MIT we've done some work with the home page. We've removed
>>Stephen> the two ticket listings and replaced them with three sections
>>Stephen> of links to saved or canned searches. The three sections are:
>>
>>Stephen> 1) "my" saved searches
>>Stephen> 2) Group saved searches
>>Stephen> 3) Global canned searches (currently two links, mapping to
>>Stephen> the standard home page ticket listings)
>>
>>That's a great idea.  I'd also like to have a better "QuickCreate"
>>window for adding tickets, which is what I'm not working on.
>>
>>Stephen> The idea is that users want direct access to "their" stuff
>>Stephen> from the home page, and using the saved search feature gives
>>Stephen> them the ability to build a customized list of "bookmarks" to
>>Stephen> their searches, accessible from the home page.
>>
>>Would you be willing to share some of your code, or at least the ideas
>>behind it so others could use it as well?

For anyone who's interested, the code to do this is on the wiki, 
Contributions->Extensions->HomePageSavedSearches

Steve