a few development notes .. they probably don't make too much sense to anyone but me..

1. block usecases

• Navigation view (having a 'main' navigation for a website with configurable links)
• User block (displaying information about the logged user with a link to his profile/logout/etc.)
• wiki block - display the rendered content of one wiki snip.
• 'ToC' for the wiki
  • 'on demand' blocks ? - this only needs to be displayed if we are in a wiki snip
• Administration block

2. requirements

• blocks must be configurable
• blocks can be displayed more than once on a site with different configuration
• blocks have to be grouped - "block sections" - e.g. sidebar left, sidebar right, dashboard
• personalization: blocks are configurable by a site admin and can (possibly) be customized by every user

3. dashboards

dashboards are basically a collection of blocks bound together on one site ..

there should be a configurable amount of dashboards ..

each dashboard has three columns - ie. three block sections.

4. block sections for sidebars have to be predefined

there should be at least two predefined block sections: left sidbar, right sidebar. this is to assure all themes/templates can at least count on one of those two things.

5. model draft

draft of all database models which are required

• Dashboard

• PageConfiguration

  defines general configuration for a page - e.g. if the configuration instance can be customized by the users, etc.

  • user_configurable (boolean, if True all users can customize the page)
  • dashboard (None for sidebars, otherwise references to a dashboard)

• PageConfigurationInstance

  a configuration of a whole "page" - this can either be the two block regions for a site (sidebar_left, sidebar_right) or a dashboard.

  It can either be a default configuration, or specific to a user or session.

  • page configuration
  • user (None for the "default" region,

• BlockRegion

  • name (e.g. 'sidebar_left' and 'sidebar_right' - or for dashboard: left, center, right)
  • pageconfiguration - every region is part of a page configuration.

• BlockInstanceConfiguration