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/