> You may believe that the need is "silly", but I really don't see how it > is in this situation.
While I can understand this need (and have brought it up a couple of times in the past) I will end up building this functionality in my own admin tab. We have 45 branch offices that are being given their own little area of the site. But I want to restrict a lot more than just what they see in the navigation tree - so it will work better for me to build it myself. Hell, it may not even be a part of the FarCry Admin console at all (because there is a "Branch" desktop coming along soon for a range of other non-farcry things they need access to. So I would end up putting the "site admin" in there. At present, we are just having the branches submit them to the web admin team. In any case we want to have a lot more control over the look and feel than we can really code into the editor (style sheets just won't cut it close enough). However, I do think being able to root a user at a certain part of the site is a valuable thing. But I don't have the separated client base behind me to say it is a valuable thing. Like you, my users will be (mostly) computer-illiterate but limiting them to a set root in the nav-tree will be the least of my worries. The other thing you might ask is if these separate areas should really be playing with the navigation model. Because if they shouldn't be doing that then maybe what is needed is a custom type (with your own admin interface) for them to add articles and items of information - and not complete HTML pages to the site. You could then create the templates with containers and rules and you select specific content to go into those pages (from the custom type) that you provide an edit interface for. We are currently expanding our site to contain a dashboard mechanism for clients. And this will allow for over 400 staff members to push information out to registered users of the site. As I said - I can see what people are getting at - wanting to root users to a certain point in the nav tree. But once you provide that, someone will want to have multiple points in the nav tree. And I really don't think you can maintain a consistent navigation/information model with so many people being able to tinker with it. Just a few thoughts. But I know clients can be difficult when they get an idea into their heads. Hope there are few alternative ideas here that may distract them. Gary Menzel > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce-farcry- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Ross > Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2004 10:42 PM > To: FarCry Developers > Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: site tree root node > > 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 leave-farcry-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia > http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 --- 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
