<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Dec 28, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Khalid B wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">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;">Until someone comes up with a brilliant replacement UI, I think that's it. <BR><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><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></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Perhaps something more along the lines of the new admin area, where the permissions can be accessed in different ways.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- by module, alpha (default)</DIV><DIV>- by module, individually</DIV><DIV>- by role</DIV><DIV>- by task</DIV><DIV> ^ content access controls</DIV><DIV> ^ moderation access controls</DIV><DIV> ^ administrative access controls</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What might be a nice contrib addition would be a simple by-user override for all permissions, so that single users can have unique permissions without having to create an entirely new global role for it. But that's a new topic....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Laura</DIV></BODY></HTML>