Geoff, This is strictly because they think it's appropriate. The setting would only be for the users that the client is unsure about being overwhelmed by the admin interface. They feel that seeing the rest of the site in the tree is confusing because they have no rights to make any changes... sure they can see it on the public-facing side, but that's completely different.
For some overview, this is going to be an intranet for a large group of affiliated family practice offices. The group wants each office to have it's own section of the site. Typically, the office manager wuold be the one updating the content, and they are not even close to being computer-savvy. The client feels the less clutter they see under the site tab, the easier the user experience will be. You may believe that the need is "silly", but I really don't see how it is in this situation. If it's a change that improves usability... how can it be negative? Because the users should "learn" where their section is and ignore the others? Sure... but if I can alleviate those few seconds of confusion (and trust me, there will be confusion!), why not? I don't think having a separate farcry instance would be a good idea... the setup time is prohibitive, and it would make administering the site as a whole much more difficult. I know that hacking the core is bad, and I will not resort to those measures. I don't see how adding an admin tab could alleviate the situation (re-do the entire site tab functionality to add one tiny piece???) I'm just kinda suprised that the functionality doesn't exist, or at least been planned... I've been asked this same question by a number of people who have looked at Farcry, many of whom passed it up because of reasons like this) -Dave --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
