[dokuwiki] Re: Mass assignment of groups in user manager
- From: "Gabriel Birke" <Gabriel.Birke@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:28:54 +0200
Hi,
thanks for your feedback. The approach you described would solve all three
points. However, there are two usability problems with the simpler approach:
We change groups very often and having to type the group names is more
effort.
Also, typing the group name is more error-prone.
Thus, in our case the GUI with the checkboxes is a feature we would be
reluctant to give up.
So here is a compromise: I will implement the interface like you described
and make the checkboxes a configurable option:
On the config page you have a field "Number of checkboxes" for a maximum
number of displayed checkboxes . Defaults to 0. Also you have a text field
"Group names for checkboxes". If the field has group names in it, these will
be used instead of the result form the 'retrieveGroups' method.
Greetings,
Gabriel
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dokuwiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Gohr
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:04 AM
> To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [dokuwiki] Re: Mass assignment of groups in user manager
>
> Hi,
>
> > as promised (some months ago) - here is a patch for the
> usermanager plugin
> > that will add a gui to assign groups to all of the selected
> users. Hopefully
> > this will make its way into the next release. I'm open for
> comments and
> > suggestions.
>
> I finally found the time to have a look at the patch. I like the idea,
> but there are a few minor things to nitpick on.
>
> 1) When the backend isn't capable of retrieving groups, you select
> *all* users and extract the groups from them. This is a bad idea
> because the list of users could be huge (think of a company using
> their LDAP directory for authentication - there could be thousands of
> users).
>
> 2) With a big number of groups, the list of check boxes can grow huge.
>
> 3) With the groups management in its own section, it is not clear that
> the affected users need to be selected in the form above.
>
> I'd suggest a simpler approach: add the mass group management at the
> bottom of the user table like this:
>
> ( ) add or ( ) delete the following grous for selected users:
> [__________________] [Go]
>
> You can just select the users above, the action (delete or add) and
> add a list of comma separated groups like when creating or modifying a
> user.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Andi
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