Reconsidering the solution of AI896

[Rodrigo Souto]

Hey Daniel,

I talked with Braulio via chat about this problem today. I told him that
we already have an almost done infra to support custom display options
for blocks, which would solve your problem of showing this block only on
the catalog very easily using the blocks display options. So I wrote the
code and included on top of Aurélio's work. Now the
ProductCategoriesBlock as an extra option 'Display on catalog only' on
it's display options and it's the default option. The code can be seeing
here: https://gitlab.com/diguliu/noosfero/commits/product-categories-block

Nevertheless, I think your idea is also useful independently of this
problem. So keep the request up on our tracker so that we may include
it.

daniel tygel escreveu isso ai:
> Hi all,
> 
>     Yesterday Bráulio and I reviewed the merge-request of AI896 (which is to
> allow sideblocks in catalog), because we desperately need it in Cirandas.
> 
>     While the proposed solution by Aurium was interesting, we noticed a
> problem, and thus would like to propose an alternative (and simpler)
> merge-request. But today, when looking at the AI, I saw that Rodrigo changed
> the status to "done".
> 
>     Could we put the status to "working" again and propose an alternative merge
> request for your consideration?
> 
>     The problem in Aurium's (good) solution is the following: it forces the
> enterprises to have a new sideblock on all the enterprise's pages (the category
> block). This is annoying, since there might already be too much information in
> the enterprise's pages, and this block is not so useful as the other block
> (products block). This new block is very nice in the catalog, but less
> important outside it.
> 
>     So we think that Aurium's solution would be ok if noosfero allowed users to
> define in what pages they want a specific block to show up. Since we don't have
> this feature in Noosfero, Bráulio and I thought of a simpler solution for
> AI896, which is the following one:
> 
>     Create a "custom_design" method which allows Noosfero to override the
> enterprise template and add blocks. It's a very small peace of code, and in
> this way we can force the catalog page to be a "single left-column" template,
> and add the product's category block (if the enterprise admin didn't add it
> already for the whole enterprise). In this way we accomplish to maintain the
> existing blocks (of the main area and of the left column) and add the
> categories block in the catalog. And the enterprise's owner can, if she wants,
> also activate the categories block for all pages using the normal "add block
> feature".
> 
>      We would thus have 2 AIs: The first one (created by us today) creates a
> new block (the product categories block). It's registered in #2965: Add
> "product categories" sideblock — Noosfero. And the second AI is the AI896,
> which will only create the custom_design method and apply it for the catalog
> page of the enterprise.
> 
>      Thanks,
> 
>              daniel
> 
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