Re: [Usability] Request for UI ideas: User/Group management

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 21:30 +0200, sam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to desig a GUI for assigning permissions to specific groups 
> of users. The GUI must make it possible to design a user/group hierarchy 
> like this:
> 
> --------------------------
> [Everyone]
> \
>  |- [Administrators]
>  |    \- Samuel
>  |- [Editors]
>  |    |- Sarah
>  |    \- Harry
>  \- [Normal Users]
>       |- Anonymous George
>       |- Anonymous Jane
>       \- [Friends]
>           |- Cathy
>           |- Jens
>           \- Stefan
> --------------------------
> (I enclosed the group names in brackets, the "Everyone" group is mandatory)
> 

i always thought of this as a grid


group user
----------------------------------------------------
      usr1  usr2  usr3 ...
grp1   x
grp2         x     x    
grp3         x
...

> Note that the following must be possible:
> 
> - Storing a user in multiple groups
> - Storing a group in any another group, at infinite depth.
> 
> The permissions are assigned to groups or users, using inheritance from one
> group to another. So collisions are possible in theory (what if a user is in a 
> group that permits access to an object and also in a group that denies 
> permission to the same object), but will be avoided by reporting them to 
> the user when he tries to create such a situation.
> 
> I was trying to avoid using a tree view, but so far my ideas are few. I 
> thought of using something like a tag system as opposed to a group 
> system, but that makes the inheritance idea non-intuitive. Any ideas for 
> a GUI?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Samuel
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