User Permissions: wide layout by default?

1 wobbly Oct 24, 2006 21:13

HI,
Can anyone tell me what each of the role check boxes mean in user permissions (not member; member; editor etc). And how do I set user permissions. I'd like them to be only able to use the write and post tabs.

Cheers
Wobbly
:?:

2 blueyed Oct 24, 2006 23:52

Check the "wide" layout there.

3 wobbly Oct 25, 2006 14:11

So simple
Many thanks.
:)

4 justcaldwell Nov 03, 2006 01:08

Yet so UNintuitive!

5 blueyed Nov 03, 2006 01:23

justcaldwell, any constructive suggestion?

6 topanga Nov 03, 2006 15:07

by default : make it wide....

7 blueyed Nov 03, 2006 15:34

IMHO it's often less confusing to _not_ have the wide design by default.

Maybe it should be just made more clear, that it can be switched?

8 topanga Nov 03, 2006 16:57

The words like they are on top in the narrow view.. are criptic, even to me...
I need to show it wide to know what I'm doing

9 mrdav Nov 03, 2006 17:45

Something like simple and advanced might be better.

10 yabba Nov 03, 2006 17:53

MrDav, yer still alive :D

11 mrdav Nov 03, 2006 17:59

Yessir....I made it through another summer. Good to see you back in the saddle. :o

12 yabba Nov 03, 2006 19:06

Slowly getting there ;)

13 balupton Nov 04, 2006 08:14

Yeh, Simple / Advanced is a good idea in my opinion. Personally i use Simple mainly, and Advanced only when i need to, which i believe was the intended purpose of having them this way. So people don't mess up permissions.

Maybe a cookie to remember which layout you prefer, but imho simple should always be default.

14 edb Nov 04, 2006 08:59

balupton wrote:

Maybe a cookie to remember which layout you prefer, but imho simple should always be default.

Dunno how it happens, but the back office tends to remember a lot of little details about what I click on. This should be no different! It probably should get new names, but for sure it should remember that I always click on wide.

15 blueyed Nov 04, 2006 18:45

Ok. Changed it to "Simple" and "Advanced" and added localization support to it (it has not been translated before).

About saving it into UserSettings: I've added it for 1.9 for non-JS (changing layout reloads the page) and added a TODO for switching by Javascript (which would require an AJAX request and we have not settled on a framework yet).

16 balupton Nov 04, 2006 18:58

Why don't you just set the cookie directly via javascript?

And thanks for the changes btw :)

17 blueyed Nov 04, 2006 19:04

Because it's not a cookie.. :)

$UserSettings is an object.

18 balupton Nov 04, 2006 19:08

:oops: hehe yeh ;)

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