John, have you ever considered changing the name "developer" to
"designer"? I think it'd be more clear.
Also, I'd think clarity could be further improved by:
* Showing that there is a Basic user privilege level that is applied
when Administrator and Developer are not checked. It's not always
clear that you still get something when all the options are
unchecked and it's certainly not clear what that "something" is
permitted to do. (Perhaps a name like "Writer" or "Author" would
help).
* Currently, Radiant's permission structure has 3 permission levels
-- each with progressively more authority (i.e. Developer = Basic
User + Unique Developer Powers and Administrator = Developer +
Unique Admin Powers). So checking Administrator *and* Developer
makes no sense -- yet today this is an option. That's really
where this thread's question comes from.
I can think of several ways to prevent this confusion to users but
first the decision needs to be made whether this progression of
powers is the best approach or whether roles should only consist
of their unique capabilities (i.e. Admin just includes permissions
to edit Users and Extension not any Developer stuff -- to get
those privileges, you'd need to add the Developer role to your
user). I'm used to the former since that's what we have today but
I can think of cases where I'd have an Admin who doesn't have
Developer privileges. The latter method is also more extensible
since others may add roles that don't fit the subset/superset
approach.
-Chris
John W. Long wrote:
On Jun 21, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Alex Wayne wrote:
Are my assumptions right? I just want to be sure that in my public
extensions I am exposing the right sections to the right users.
Nope.
An administrator is a superuser. A developer can do everything, but
create and edit other users. The two roles are really more akin to
"root" and "designer".
--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com
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