[development] Even more flexibility in content management

[Rob Barreca]

> 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.
You're right about lots of roles pushing it out. I think highlighting 
would be a nice/simple improvement for D6. Thanks.

Rob Roy Barreca
Founder and COO
Electronic Insight Corporation
http://www.electronicinsight.com
rob at electronicinsight.com



Khalid B wrote:
> On 12/28/06, *Greg Knaddison - GVS* <Greg at growingventuresolutions.com 
> <mailto:Greg at growingventuresolutions.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/28/06, Rob Barreca <rob at electronicinsight.com
>     <mailto:rob at 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.
>
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