Hi, Just a few thoughts on making BASE2 easier to administrate:
1. It's all too easy to delete items as an administrator and then find that you need to log in/impersonate the original owner to actually empty the trash (they don't go into the admin user's trash). One convenient solution which wouldn't require any major changes to the API would be to list the trash status (empty or not) on the list of users page somewhere (clicking on this item could impersonate that user and go straight to the trash list) 2. filter on "name" in the "All items" page would be nice (since I religiously name everything with a experiment prefix). I guess there's some good reason why this isn't already implemented. 3. if the administrator could temporarily set the web application to read-only (in the Administrate menu, for example), then backups could be made while people still browsed (or would mysqldump --lock-tables achieve basically the same thing?) cheers, Bob. -- Bob MacCallum | VectorBase Developer | Kafatos/Christophides Groups | Division of Cell and Molecular Biology | Imperial College London | Phone +442075941945 | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
