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?
Ok. "Silly" is not a good general term to use. I mean "silly" in the sense that this is not an appropriate modification for the tree IMO, especially given the functionality that already exists and the alternatives that exist.
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.
Well that depends on how many instances... if you had a lot of departments I'd agree multiple-farcry sites would be silly too ;)
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???)
Well cut and paste would be the order of the day in the new Admin Tab perhaps. But you're right, work would be involved.
I'm just kinda suprised that the functionality doesn't exist,
or at least been planned...
You talk of sandboxing users in the tree -- clearly they are already sandboxed with regard to authoring rights; the only issue is displaying or not displaying sections of the tree. There is a surprising amount of depth to the product, and it is *very* extensible. Here are some out-of-the-box, or little fuss options:
a: You can set up quicklinks that allow users to navigate to a specific branch from the Quick Links drop down menu (simply add a navigation alias to any navigation folder). Selecting a Quick Link immediately ZOOMS the tree to show only that branch.
b: Users can be trained to right mouse click and ZOOM on any node within the tree.
c: You could modify the myFarCry Tab (the page users see when they login) to include a link to a specific ZOOMED view of the tree relevant to the group membership of the user in question. [modicum of work required] (Note we use links like this in the approval emails to zoom to the specific part of the tree that needs attention)
Note also that the tree only expands on request. That the state of the tree's expansion is recorded and preserved in a cookie for that user.
Hope that helps,
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
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