Hi Hans, I agree there's a very real problem, but I don't think this is the solution.
Microsoft introduced incredible shrinking menus to Windows and to the Office applications, so that "beginners" had less to see. The intention was to give you the "most used" features. Trouble is, any individual needs the most used features Microsoft thought they needed, plus one more. And that one more was different for everybody. In order to navigate to the one more feature, everyone had to break out of "beginner" mode, and navigate and understand the complete system. The result was that the "beginner" mode added complexity and noise, without providing any benefit to most of the people it was supposed to help. I think the right answer needs much more work than just putting menu items into three buckets. There should be visual representations of a workflow, so it is easy and predictable to see what's next. As Sam said, it would be better to base what people see on the role they perform, rather than arbitrary categories. Cheers Paul Foxworthy Hans Bakker-2 wrote: > > In general it is accepted that OFBiz is having too much functionality > which can be really overwhelming. > > We are thinking about introducing a user preference in function levels: > > for example: > 1. beginner > 2. intermediate > 3. full feature. > > The beginner will only see the basic features in the components however > the system will be fully functional. > > The intermediate person will see more functions but not everything.. > > And the full feature will show everything what is there. > > Anybody any opinions or thoughts about this? > > Regards, > Hans > > > -- > Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz > Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak > Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates. > -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/hiding-functionality-in-ofbiz-tp3473417p3482830.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
