On 12/28/06, Rob Barreca <rob@electronicinsight.com> wrote:
> A bit off-topic and not super critical, but this will also need to spur a
> discussion of a more manageable access control page if we have something
> like 5 perms for each content type. Is there an issue/any ideas on how to
> simplify the access control page? Or, is a super long matrix format still
> the best way to go?

Until someone comes up with a brilliant replacement UI, I think that's it.

Are there any similar models from other systems that we could copy? I
don't know of any good ones off the top of my head.

There is also the issue of when you have more than 5 or so roles, and the list
goes to the right beyond the screen.

Some alternatives were proposed some time back.

One of them (was it by Konstantin K?) was to use css to highlight the column titles
(role names) on the line that has the cursor on it.

Another was to have collapsible.

It is a tough usability one to tackle, specially scaling well for many roles and
many modules and many permissions per module.