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Let users pin projects to the Dashboard

Authors: Flora Thiebaut, Laura Kinkead

🤔 Problem

As a user, I have a handful of projects (i.e. up to 5) which I want to always have a quick link to. Currently, if I explore projects on RenkuLab, my own projects may disappear from the Dashboard because of the “last-visited-shown-first” logic.

🚞 User stories / journeys

  • As a user of RenkuLab, I want to be able to pin a project to the Dashboard. (Most likely from the header card?)
  • As a user of RenkuLab, I want to un-pin a project from the Dashboard.
  • As a user of RenkuLab, I want to re-order my pinned projects. (Is this a nice-to-have?)

🍴 Appetite

3 weeks

🎯 Solution

This is very similar to GitHub’s pinned repositories

User Flow: Pinning and Unpinning

User should be able to pin a project from its entry in the Dashboard and from its project page.

From the same places, the user should be able to un-pin the project.

Re: Indexing

Pinned projects should show up, even if the project is not indexed in the KG.

Nice-to-have: Custom ordering

From the Dashboard, the user can reorder pinned projects. Maybe via a simple menu, or by drag and drop.

How Pinning & Recently Viewed play nice together

Note that there should be some maximum number of pinned projects (5), so that the Dashboard can still display at least 5 last-visited projects (Total is 10 projects = X pinned + Y last visited).

Show pinned projects and then below show recently viewed.

Projects with running sessions: if the project is pinned, it stays exactly where it is. If the project is unpinned, it goes to the top of the unpinned section (below pins).

[nice-to-have] In the same “Customize Dashboard” menu where the user chooses the ordering of their the pins, allow the user to toggle on or off also showing recently viewed projects.

Technical Details

Add some backend to track which projects are pinned by a user and in which order, i.e. add a new user preferences service, or add this feature to it.

🐰 Rabbit Holes

  • Potentially the first time the UI team will add a backend service in Python

🙅‍♀️ No-gos

  • Pinning Datasets
  • Showing pinned projects in search
  • Pins should not be saved in the KG