Misc Suggestions for Features

  • Resolved son0fhobs

    (@son0fhobs)


    10 years ago

    Greetings!

    First of all, awesome plugin! The interface aesthetically looks great, and the filtering options are awesome!

    I starting adding custom events, and the code is super well laid out, clear, and incredibly easy to work with. Such a breath of fresh air! It inspires me to work on my organization and cleanliness of code!

    Unfortunately I needed more flexibility, and primarily another column of data to fulfill my needs. I’m keeping track of all credit card transactions and I want to log the responses along with any data. Would it be hard to add a new column? I didn’t take much time to look. But at this point I’ve already built 90% of my own, so I’ll just continue with my setup. However, it might be helpful for future use.

    Unfortunately I don’t have the time to contribute to this plugin at the moment. But I figured I’d to toss out some ideas of things I was doing for my project in case the might be helpful to your audience.

    1. Trigger email events. I’m going to have a log emailed to me on a monthly basis, but more importantly for key events, such as failed credit card transactions. For the plugin, if a certain number of failed logins happens in a row, that would be a great time to trigger a warning email. Giving options for the user to select what events trigger emails would be helpful. Another good trigger would be if someone tried to login from outside of the country. Using an IP to location service would provide the needed tool for that. Actually now that I think of it, I’m totally going to apply that to a couple of my projects.
    2. Other heuristics primarily to highlight key events at the top, such as failed logins, excessive number of users added or posts made, etc.

    Anyway, just thought I’d toss those out there. Oh, and back to the question, would it be hard to add a new row of custom data? I might use this plugin if it’s relatively easy.

    Thanks!

    PS – Well done making the table responsive and removing the columns to the right, good call!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/stream/

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  • Frankie Jarrett

    (@fjarrett)

    10 years ago

    Hello son0fhobs,

    Wow, thank you so much for the feedback! It’s great to hear some appreciation for the level of work that has gone into this. If you could leave us a 5 star review we would be totally ecstatic!

    1. We are going to be releasing something pretty exciting within the next 3 weeks that does this very thing. Be on the lookout for it, I think you’ll find it very useful.

    2. I really like the idea of allowing Stream to mark key records you might be interested in, functioning almost like you’d expect a “favorites” list or “sticky posts” to work. And like you said, something helpful could be done in the UI to indicate them. Thanks for the great suggestion!

    3. Lastly, concerning custom data for Stream, are you familiar with the stream_meta table yet? I think this will be the perfect solution to what you are looking for. Basically you can add any number of custom meta to a record that you want.

    Notice how we are logging 5 meta values when a post status is transitioned. This allows us to then use the get_stream_meta() function to see that meta information when it may be useful.

    I hope this helps your cause! Any time you are free, would love to have you join us in GitHub. /five!

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