I raised this in a couple of posts towards the tail end of this thread back in November 2013 and wanted to check if it is covered in the new layout for v 1.2?
An updated copy of the relevant part of my post is below:
"I believe the dashboard, as the main member private area, should have access to all features, with the profile reflecting what a user allows to be viewed by other categories apart from himself (Family, Friends and Family, Public etc) and this is not the case at the moment:
Item...........................Dashboard................Profile..............Profile Comment
Album.......................No................................Optional
Blog...........................Default.......................Default.............(Number of posts to display is available)
Calendar..................Default.......................Default
Comments..............No................................Default.............(Widget optional but as comments displayed anyway if off, what does it do?)
Discussions...........No................................Default.............Summary Totals (List detail is optional)
Feed.........................Default........................Default
Friends....................Optional.....................Optional
Notes........................Default.......................Default
Photos......................No................................Optional
Tasks........................Default........................No......................(Tasks are correctly private)
Birthday...................No?*.............................Default..............(*It may be default for dashboard, not sure, but should be)
Achievements.......No.................................Default
Points History........No.................................No.....................(Points history is correctly private)
Dashboard
I would prefer all items above to be either default or optional in the dashboard, which is the main (my default) icon in the top left of the toolbar and my key 'view all items' area in the social section.
It is a real pain not being able to see or work with Albums, Comments, Discussions, Photos, Achievements and Points History from the dashboard, where I would like to easily flick down through a list of everything that is relevant to me.
It means I need to go back and forth in a 2 click - 1 click UX from dashboard to profile, not smooth.
The problem is not about choice of private or public, it is just a painful UX to (for example) have to leave the dashboard to view comments and/or discussions when I do not need to do that for blogs and having Albums, Photos, Achievements and Points History available in the dashboard should be a default option."
I wasn't able to get the beta working on my local set up (always stopped on install saying curl needed to be enabled when it was already enabled) to help test so I appreciate it may already be covered, just wanted to check before stable release appeared.
An updated copy of the relevant part of my post is below:
"I believe the dashboard, as the main member private area, should have access to all features, with the profile reflecting what a user allows to be viewed by other categories apart from himself (Family, Friends and Family, Public etc) and this is not the case at the moment:
Item...........................Dashboard................Profile..............Profile Comment
Album.......................No................................Optional
Blog...........................Default.......................Default.............(Number of posts to display is available)
Calendar..................Default.......................Default
Comments..............No................................Default.............(Widget optional but as comments displayed anyway if off, what does it do?)
Discussions...........No................................Default.............Summary Totals (List detail is optional)
Feed.........................Default........................Default
Friends....................Optional.....................Optional
Notes........................Default.......................Default
Photos......................No................................Optional
Tasks........................Default........................No......................(Tasks are correctly private)
Birthday...................No?*.............................Default..............(*It may be default for dashboard, not sure, but should be)
Achievements.......No.................................Default
Points History........No.................................No.....................(Points history is correctly private)
Dashboard
I would prefer all items above to be either default or optional in the dashboard, which is the main (my default) icon in the top left of the toolbar and my key 'view all items' area in the social section.
It is a real pain not being able to see or work with Albums, Comments, Discussions, Photos, Achievements and Points History from the dashboard, where I would like to easily flick down through a list of everything that is relevant to me.
It means I need to go back and forth in a 2 click - 1 click UX from dashboard to profile, not smooth.
The problem is not about choice of private or public, it is just a painful UX to (for example) have to leave the dashboard to view comments and/or discussions when I do not need to do that for blogs and having Albums, Photos, Achievements and Points History available in the dashboard should be a default option."
I wasn't able to get the beta working on my local set up (always stopped on install saying curl needed to be enabled when it was already enabled) to help test so I appreciate it may already be covered, just wanted to check before stable release appeared.