GUI improvements - phase 1

Thursday 26 February 2004 12:22:51 am

hi,

to me, a great improvement would be to hide sections to users who shouldn't have access to sme parts of the administration interface. For example, hide the shop section in a news site, hide the users, setup...sections to non adminitsrators users.
Plus, we noticed that the "preview" button doesn't give the user access to the "real website preview" (or maybe we missed something !) so why don't you delete it ?

Francis.

Thursday 26 February 2004 7:24:53 am

Here is some of the feedback that I have heard from our editors regarding the content creation process. Please note, all of this feedback applies to version 3.1, as we do not currently have a later version in production.

<b>1. Adding a Location/Copying Confusion</b>
When copying a folder, or adding a location to a folder, the editor expects that everything within that folder will also show up under the new version, which is not the case.

<b>2. Class Attribute Ordering</b>
As I, and others have mentioned in the past the use of up and down arrows for changing the order of class attributes is extremely unfriendly and takes far too much time. Again, I recommend using the priority box method to sort these attributes.

<b>3. Add/Remove Multiple Locations</b>
We would like to have the ability to add or remove multiple locations for an item at the same time. At the moment, we have to add a location and wait for the system to process it, then click on the add button again, navigate to another location and wait for it to process... It would be nice to just choose 'Add Locations' and be able to select multiple locations with check boxes.

It would also be nice to be able to remove more than one location at a time.

Thanks for giving us this thread to provide feedback on the interface.

Alex

Alex
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Friday 27 February 2004 6:44:15 am

One of things to do is to hide functions when the current user can not use them.
The tabs 'shop', 'setup' and 'users' are concerned.

What I did : (on ez 3.3.3) :

1 /I added in index.php, line 578
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//to know if user has access to shop, setup
include_once( "kernel/classes/datatypes/ezuser/ezuser.php" );
$currentUser =& eZUser::currentUser();
$tempTable = $currentUser->hasAccessTo( 'shop', 'orderlist' );
if ( $tempTable[ 'accessWord' ] == 'yes' ) { $hasAccessToShop= 'true'; } else { $hasAccessToShop= 'false'; }
$tempTable = $currentUser->hasAccessTo( 'setup', 'menu' );
if ( $tempTable[ 'accessWord' ] == 'yes' ) { $hasAccessToSetup= 'true'; } else { $hasAccessToSetup= 'false'; }

2/ I added in index.php, line 744
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//to know if user has access to shop, setup
$tpl->setVariable( 'hasAccessToShop', $hasAccessToShop );
$tpl->setVariable( 'hasAccessToSetup', $hasAccessToSetup );

then you can use the two new values $hasAccessToShop and $hasAccessToSetup in design/admin/templates/pagelayout.tpl, like following :

{switch match=$hasAccessToSetup}
{case match='true'}
//
//show Setup tab
//
{/case}
{case}
{/case}
{/switch}

<b>but, for the tab 'users', what is the exact right to check ? </b>

Monday 22 March 2004 6:39:16 pm

See what i thing about GUI improvements:
http://ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/administration_interface_and_gui_improvements

<b>Sugested priorities for next version (3.3.4) - phase 1 </b>
1 - Dinamic menu
2 - Multiple move
3 - Copy folder (everything within that folder)
4 - Multiple Copy

axel

http://AlexandreCunha.com