ezWORK

Improvement proposals
Make the plugin an activity_provider

It would be great if the plugin could be changed to use the acts_as_activity_provider API in Redmine. Then added FAQ’s show up in the Activity-view of Redmine. The following two changes needs to be made to full-fill the request:

• The following needs to be added to the faq-model:

belongs_to :project
  belongs_to :author, :class_name => 'User', :foreign_key => 'author_id'

acts_as_event :title => Proc.new {|o| "#{o.question}"},
                :description => Proc.new {|o| "#{o.answer}"},
                :datetime => :created_on,
                :author => :author,
                :url => Proc.new {|o| {:controller => 'ezfaq', :action => 'show', :id => o.project_id, :faq_id => o.id}}

acts_as_activity_provider :find_options => { :include => [:project, :author] },
                            :author_key => :updater_id

• The following needs to be added to the init.rb:
  1. Faqs are added to the activity view
     activity_provider :faqs

The only thing left is the styling of the activity FAQ-items through CSS (the images in front of the item using a selector like dt.faq { background-image: url(../images/question.png); }) plus an additional language-string for :label_faqs_plural which is used in the acitivty-sidebar.

Btw: I think this could be usefull for the EzLibrarian-plugin for Redmine…

HTH, Mischa The Evil