20 Oct
2010
20 Oct
'10
12:22 p.m.
On 10/19/2010 08:30 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. wrote:
Hi,
I would like to share with you three proposals about XE/XEM. I've not a
clear idea about the cost in terms of "programming effort", but I would
like to know if you consider them suitable.
1. In a XE/XEM default installation I think it would be better to
include the username/password fields and the links "Forgot your username
or password?"utilities in the headerglobal area. That way, users will
not be redirected to a different page and can easily see changes in
their current one (the one from where they are logging) once they are
authenticated.
This can be done if you change your skin. For example, this is what
Curriki does: http://curriki.org/
I don't like this for the default, but I'd like the login to be done in
a lightbox sometime soon (2.7?).
2. On log out, if the user has not access to his/her
current page, it
will be informed with a message. Currently you "only" get redirected to
the log in page. Users with concerns about who access contents they have
created or are responsible of, will be happier with this information
message.
Can you provide a draft text?
3. To show in the Information tab or in an /ad hoc/
tab adding some
administrative capabilities (granting/revoking access rights, for
instance) what users/groups have what rights on the current document.
You mean a kind of read-only version of the rights editor, listing only
the entries with some rights set? I don't find it that useful right now.
Could you look at
http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Improvements/Rights ?
All these three proposals/ideas are mostly oriented to
the use of XWiki
based information systems developed for groups with requirements about
access control and access monitoring. Nothing weird in industrial
environments, nor in biomedical ones.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/