I included part of this discussion in my last answer in the "New icons" thread
on dev ML, please see my POV there.
In few words, I agree that roles are the best solution at the enterprise level
but not for individuals. The old concept of
beginners, intermediate, expert levels is maybe not the right solution as it
has not the flexilibity needed. The best would be to
combine the roles and the liability for individual users to chose their own
sets of features. For instance as an admin whit all
rights, I may want to not see some components and would like to be able to hide
them w/out hiding it for all users (as we can with
the app-bar-display attribute in the webapp element in ofbiz-component.xml). I like how Firefox allows me to add/remove buttons in
the buttons bar for instance.
Jacques
From: "Paul Foxworthy" <[email protected]>
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
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