On 12/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Knaddison - GVS</b> <<a href="mailto:Greg@growingventuresolutions.com">Greg@growingventuresolutions.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 12/28/06, Rob Barreca <<a href="mailto:rob@electronicinsight.com">rob@electronicinsight.com</a>> wrote:<br>> A bit off-topic and not super critical, but this will also need to spur a<br>> discussion of a more manageable access control page if we have something
<br>> like 5 perms for each content type. Is there an issue/any ideas on how to<br>> simplify the access control page? Or, is a super long matrix format still<br>> the best way to go?<br><br>Until someone comes up with a brilliant replacement UI, I think that's it.
<br><br>Are there any similar models from other systems that we could copy? I<br>don't know of any good ones off the top of my head.</blockquote><div><br>There is also the issue of when you have more than 5 or so roles, and the list
<br>goes to the right beyond the screen.<br><br>Some alternatives were proposed some time back.<br><br>One of them (was it by Konstantin K?) was to use css to highlight the column titles <br>(role names) on the line that has the cursor on it.
<br><br>Another was to have collapsible.<br><br>It is a tough usability one to tackle, specially scaling well for many roles and<br>many modules and many permissions per module. <br></div><br></div>