Public view of shelve or tagged elements and list view

[steffenj87]

I would like i.e. to display my daughter's books on a public page so that friends can check beforehand whether this book is already in her collection the next time they go shopping. The view should be possible without logging in with a user account.
And to make it perfect, there should be the option for a searchable and filtered list view with small book covers.

THX

[bayang]

Currently the best way to achieve this is to use a tag. Let's say you create a to_buy tag and every book that your daughter would like should be tagged wit this new tag.
Tags are unique and shared across all accounts on a jelu instance.
So for your use case, once a book has been bought it should be enough to remove the tag which would remove it from the to buy list.
The only issue is that viewing tags do require an account.
If it was possible to access certain tags without an account, would it be suitable for your use case ?

[steffenj87]

Goal of this idea was to provide a web catalogue of all books (read by my daughter - owned by her or lend in the biblio).
And everyone with the link can view this catalogue without logging in. So everyone can look at the catalogue at home or on his shopping tour that he is not buying a book which is already there.
The second part with a wishlist is possible with the tags and I use this already 😁

[bayang]

I'm thinking of creating a new "list" item, which would need 4 elements to be created by an user :

• a list name
• a bool indication that the list is public or private
• a bool indication that the list is "actionable" or not
• a tag

From there, all books in the "to_read" list of the user having the chosen tag would be included in the list.
A public list would be viewable from anybody.
Finally, if a list is "actionable" a small button (a cross, a bin etc...) would be displayed on each book.
Pressing this "action" would remove the tag and therefore remove the book from the list.

This would fit the wishlist or buying list use case.

What do you think of this @steffenj87 ?

[steffenj87]

@bayang sounds great!
I think this will be suite all my needs. I can create a public list of read books and also a public "wishlist" so everything could be handled with this solution.

looking forward :-)

Thank you