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 agree that this would be a very good option to have.
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???)
Custom admin tabs are trivial. Without looking deeply into it, I'd imagine this would be relatively simple to setup and maintain.
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)
Without sounding defensive, what may seem like logical functionality to have in the core is not always best. Each organisation needs things done a tiny bit differently. Farcry supports what you ask with a very small amount of work while giving great flexibility.
A tool could be made which auto-creates custom tabs and permissions for groups which point to the specific parts of the tree (just like the utility tab points to the utility branch of the tree). It would be relatively simple to create, and if you'd like to contribute something back to Farcry I'm sure we'd all be very grateful for the contribution.
-- tim
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