Store filter settings in userinfo records about habari HOT 14 OPEN

Author: @freakerz
Is there a reason not to use a GET url? With a return or cancel button, it should work out?

Else I'ld advise the use of Sesssion::add_to_set() rather than userinfo as it will not expire on its own.

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Author: @itrebal
I like the idea of the filters sticking through the sessions. For websites that use Habari and have more pages than entries - its sort of a passive configuration option.

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Author: @dmondark
+1 for this. An additional setting we can also store is the dash modules positions.

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Author: @Arthus
I support storing it in the session. This is something which relates to the session, not really the entire user.

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Author: @dmondark
Replying to [comment:4 arthus]:

I support storing it in the session. This is something which relates to the session, not really the entire user.
I think I disagree. If I have more content types (say podcasts and events) I'd like to always see all of them listed when I visit the manage page. Not only for the current session.

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Author: @chrismeller
I agree these should be done on the user, simply because I see no reason not to. Rather than have it "mysteriously" disappear when I'm logged out, I can set them as I please and have them stay that way.

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Author: @rickc
Using userinfo records makes more sense to me, too, for the reasons chrismeller gives. This is something I'd like to see survive between sessions, changing only when I changed the settings myself, rather than returning to default values when I log out.

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Author: @moeffju
Pushing to 0.7 since there's no patch and we're past feature-freeze for 0.6.

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Author: @michaeltwofish
Pushing to 0.8. This shouldn't be too tricky, and if someone tackles it it's likely to get committed.

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Ticket imported from Trac:
http://trac.habariproject.org/habari/ticket/211

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Related #272.

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This is a nice-to-have that's deceptively complicated and is holding up 0.9. Pushing to future milestone.

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Rather than saving the filter in a userinfo record, which would prevent the user from having different filters at the same time (in different windows, for whatever reason), I would suggest allowing the user to define a default filter. We use presets for displaying posts in admin in 0.10, allowing the user to create a preset and use that would be a nice solution.

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Also, whatever solution we come up with, I think this might be better in a plugin.

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