On 27 Sep 2011, at 08:40, Paul van Dijk wrote: > Hi all, > > Please let me introduce myself. My name is Paul van Dijk product > manager at SURFnet. In the months to come we would like to put some > more effort in our co-development of Rave. > > One of the first topics we would like to cover is the development of > an admin interface. Attached you will find a number of mockups of > functionality we would like to include. > > I am curious if these ideas fit with yours (?)
I think this is a great starting point for the admin interface. Certainly using tabs makes sense for organising the screens as we can then add more tabs for configuring extensions - I guess the only question there is how many tabs could be supported. (An alternative would be the Wordpress style of admin interface using expanding left-hand menus, but that would require more development, whereas the tabbed interface is already implemented in Rave.) Would it also make sense for the admin features themselves to be developed as widgets, connecting to the Rave REST API to perform their functions? This would then make the admin interface easily customisable like any other portal page. We could also re-use some of the admin widgets for limited admin functions available to most portal users - e.g. editing their own profile, viewing their own groups, viewing stats for their own pages. > > One of the things we initially need to address is how to provide > administrator access to the admin interface in a safe way. > > I have added the mockups to epic: > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAVE-9> > > Best regards, > > Paul > SURFnet > > > >
