I’ve had two good weeks to work on upgrading the MySite module.

MySite 5.2 beta 3 is now out for testing.

This release adds a number of new features and requires running update.php. A quick overview:

• Drag and drop sorting of page content across multiple page regions
• Blocks and Views support
• The ability to create ‘droplets’ of content that function like Google Gadgets
• An administrative option to remove all blocks from the MySite page, which lets users have complete control over page content
• An icon system for attractive browsing of content options
• Paginated content browsing, based on content category
• Multi-step content settings for a simpler UI
• Support for user-specific settings for individual content items
• CCK / generic node support — track all posts of a specific type
• User tracking — all posts by specific users
• Profile support — users can add selected profile elements to their MySite page
• A new three-column layout

The new layouts and css tricks have been tested on Firefox / Mac only, so additional platform testing would be appreciated.

Thanks to

The development process tapped a lot of great Drupal resources. Here are a few specific thanks.

• jjeff for the jQuery Update and jQuery Interface modules. (Both are required for drag-and-drop)
• starbow for his work on AHAH and ajax-based tables and forms
• merlinofchaos for tips and tricks regarding page layouts
• dww for (again) answering dumb cvs questions
• jonbob for the API module
• douggreen for the Coder module
• All the folks who submitted bug reports and patches

I still have some work to do, including finishing the documentation and porting the contributed plugins up to 5.x.2.

Please test the module and report issues at the issue queue.