On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 19:02, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Caty, > > On Apr 12, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > When talking with JV about the first 5 minutes experience, we thought > about > > adding some user roles inside XE. > > From the start the user could select his appropriate role inside the wiki > > and we could customize his environment according to that role. > > > > We talked about: > > - display a "Get started" wizard the first time a user logs in: > > Already proposed at: > > > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/XWiki5MinutesProposal1 > > > > - when the user starts/finishes the wizard, he's asked to choose a > > role/flavor: (normal, advanced), (user, developer, administrator), etc. > > - choosing a role configures the wiki with some predefined values for the > > profile preferences; > > - a user can later fine tune his preferences. > > You can see the proposal at > > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/UserRoles > > I like the idea in general but IMO the UI isn't clear since you can choose > both a role AND options below but they're exclusive since AFAIU a role is a > preset of those options. This is not clear from the UI. > >From the proposal page: "- Changing the role will set the preferences to a certain value that correspond to the role; - 'Custom' option will preserve the last user configuration (in order to let the user play with the role selector and preserve his entries) and will not depend of a certain role; - Selecting 'Developer' role and then changing one of the preset preferences, will change the role to 'Custom...'." Selecting a Role from above will "reset to default" the preferences. Any change on the preferences from the user's part will set the Role to "Custom..." Thanks, Caty > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
