[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #9007: Introduce Admin Notifications to inform Admins about important changes

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#9007: Introduce Admin Notifications to inform Admins about important changes
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 Reporter:  imath           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  11.4.0
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch       |
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Description changed by imath:

Old description:

> During October 2, we've discussed about a way to warn Admins about the
> upcoming major change and advise the ones using BuddyPress plugins to
> install the BP Classic plugin.
>
> As Admin notices are beginning to be treated as spams, I thought we
> should take this opportunity to build our our Admin Notifications center
> (waiting for the WP Notify feature as a plugin to be merged in
> WordPress).
>
> We already have the Notifications component, but as it has to be
> available even if this component is inactive, I haven't used it. But I've
> used the WP Admin Bar bubble it normally generates when it is active.
>
> When the notifications component is active, if the current user is an
> Admin and there is one or more Admin notifications, these will replace
> the regular notifications as long as they are not dismissed. Here's a
> screenshot about this Admin Notifications center.
>
> [[Image(https://cldup.com/_X6lSVkYj5.png)]]
>
> As you can see into the Bubble we simply have an exclamation point with a
> bright red background, clicking on the link is bringing the Admin to the
> Notifications Admin screen where he can dismiss notifications or click on
> Action buttons (which also dismissed the corresponding notifications).
>
> If we go this road, we'll need to backport these commits in 11.4.0:
> - [13576]
> - part of [13594]: line 1578 to 1591 of trunk/src/bp-core/classes/class-
> bp-admin.php

New description:

 During October 2 dev-chat, we've discussed about a way to warn Admins
 about the upcoming major change and advise the ones using BuddyPress
 plugins to install the BP Classic plugin.

 As Admin notices are beginning to be treated as spams, I thought we should
 take this opportunity to build our our Admin Notifications center (waiting
 for the WP Notify feature as a plugin to be merged in WordPress).

 We already have the Notifications component, but as it has to be available
 even if this component is inactive, I haven't used it. But I've used the
 WP Admin Bar bubble it normally generates when it is active.

 When the notifications component is active, if the current user is an
 Admin and there is one or more Admin notifications, these will replace the
 regular notifications as long as they are not dismissed. Here's a
 screenshot about this Admin Notifications center.

 [[Image(https://cldup.com/_X6lSVkYj5.png)]]

 As you can see into the Bubble we simply have an exclamation point with a
 bright red background, clicking on the link is bringing the Admin to the
 Notifications Admin screen where he can dismiss notifications or click on
 Action buttons (which also dismissed the corresponding notifications).

 If we go this road, we'll need to backport these commits in 11.4.0:
 - [13576]
 - part of [13594]: line 1578 to 1591 of trunk/src/bp-core/classes/class-
 bp-admin.php

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