Hi, We also encounter the situation where folks would like to target certain groups with the same announcement. So this capability would be very useful for us, too.
2) Assigning permissions at the topic level is not very useful in certain > scenarios. E.g. If I have different "Academic notices" for faculty staff > and students then I have to create 2 separate topics to achieve this. This > gets worse if I want different academic notices for each school. > Thanks. Cindy Manhattan College On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Anthony Colebourne < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't really have any UI comments about this project, but I though it > worth mentioning some though/discussions I've had about this project. > > 1) The Assign Permissions feature is too basic. Also mapping the available > groups in the portlet.xml is a pain. I think ultimately this need > integrating with the Portal groups system. Either by adopting this as a > framework portlet or by using uPortal provided APIs. > > 2) Assigning permissions at the topic level is not very useful in certain > scenarios. E.g. If I have different "Academic notices" for faculty staff > and students then I have to create 2 separate topics to achieve this. This > gets worse if I want different academic notices for each school. > > The portlet currently allows non-unique topic names, which helps in this > scenario as at least each topic can have the same name so users don't know > that its actually a different topic. However if you do this, it's > impossible to tell in the admin UI which is which without clicking on each > one, then clicking back and trying to remember which one you clicked last! > > Thanks, > Anthony. > > > > On 06/08/14 21:42, Jodie Muramoto wrote: > >> Hi everyone (again), >> >> The next couple of days, I’ll be working on improving the UI for the >> Announcements Portlet. I’ll be incorporating Bootstrap into the >> various views, along with adding some PIZZAZZ. Attached are >> wireframes of some of these ideas. Please note, the color of buttons >> and the placement of buttons will be addressed, these are simply a >> general view UI updates. >> >> I anticipate having these changes in a pull request later this week. >> Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions. >> >> Cheers, Jodie Muramoto User Experience | Unicon, Inc. >> [email protected] >> >> >> > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
