Feature #33129
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Restore "Latest Projects" to Home page
Description
In the earlier versions of Redmine, "Latest projects" box was placed on the Home page. It showed recently created 5 projects and users can quickly access projects from there.
However, the box was removed in Redmine 3.2.0 (#21148) because the project list that shows projects regardless of frequency of use is quite useless.
In Redmine 4.1, the "Recently used projects" feature has been implemented for the project selector (#31355). It is useful if the "Latest projects" box is restored and recently used projects are shown in the box. You can go to the projects you use frequently with fewer clicks. I think it improves usability.
The following screenshot is the Home page of Redmine 3.1. The "Latest projects" box shows recently created projects.
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Related issues
Updated by Go MAEDA about 6 years ago
- Related to Feature #21148: Remove "Latest Projects" from Home page added
Updated by Go MAEDA 30 days ago
- File recent-projects-box@2x.png recent-projects-box@2x.png added
- File 33129-recent-projects-box.patch 33129-recent-projects-box.patch added
I wrote a patch that adds a "Recently used projects" box to the Home page. It shows the same projects as the "Recently used" group in the project selector.
Up to Redmine 3.1, the Home page had a "Latest projects" box that displayed up to five recently created projects. It was removed in Redmine 3.2 because recently created projects were not very meaningful and could be confusing for users (see #21148).
I think the Home page can still benefit from a box that lists projects if it shows recently used projects instead of recently created ones. Like the "Recently used" group added to the project selector in Redmine 4.1 (see #31355), this would give users quick access to projects they work with frequently.
I would like to propose reintroducing a projects box on the Home page, this time showing recently used projects instead of recently created ones.
Updated by Go MAEDA 20 days ago
- Target version deleted (
7.0.0)
I found that bookmarked projects do not appear in the "Recently projects" box added by this patch, even if they have been accessed recently.
This is because the Redmine::ProjectJumpBox#recently_used_projects method is designed to exclude bookmarked projects from its results.
However, excluding bookmarked projects makes the result confusing, because users would expect recently accessed projects to appear regardless of bookmark status.
I will consider a better approach.