auto-opening [What's new ?] dialog in workshop

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In Workshop it would be nice to have a [What’s new ?] feature that pop-up a dialog where developper can write a summary of latest update.

Intention is to inform end users of our Workshop application that some thing have changed and to give some advices or explanation about that changes.

It could be presented on the same format that the [platform update] panel with hability given to developpers to set features like :

  • auto-pop-up on 1st opening afeter a new update
  • organise a change documentation including pictures
  • level of alerte : info, warning, alerte

A workaround can be done by using a dialog container widget but this is hard to automate opening the first time the user come then not next time.

Another idea but more complicated to implement in my opinion could be an guided tour based on an overlay tutorial. Also called overlay onboarding, or walkthrough.

Context is that user often ask for a tutorial and reminder when the app evolves.

What do you think about this proposal?

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+1 this would be very cool.

We’ve done something similar by leveraging the ontology to store this info. We created an object per user (i.e. object 1) to store if they seen the latest update. On workshop open, we check if a property (acknowledged) on object 1 with the current users id is true. If the object does not exist or the property is false. We should a default module, when the user closes it by clicking on a button, we trigger an action to update the acknowledged property. The next time they enter the app, the module is not shown.

It requires a bit of manual configuration, but has worked for us to gather user preferences and highlight changes.

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