On 10/19/2010 08:30 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to share with you three proposals about XE/XEM. I've not a > clear idea about the cost in terms of "programming effort", but I would > like to know if you consider them suitable. > > 1. In a XE/XEM default installation I think it would be better to > include the username/password fields and the links "Forgot your username > or password?"utilities in the headerglobal area. That way, users will > not be redirected to a different page and can easily see changes in > their current one (the one from where they are logging) once they are > authenticated.
This can be done if you change your skin. For example, this is what Curriki does: http://curriki.org/ I don't like this for the default, but I'd like the login to be done in a lightbox sometime soon (2.7?). > 2. On log out, if the user has not access to his/her current page, it > will be informed with a message. Currently you "only" get redirected to > the log in page. Users with concerns about who access contents they have > created or are responsible of, will be happier with this information > message. Can you provide a draft text? > 3. To show in the Information tab or in an /ad hoc/ tab adding some > administrative capabilities (granting/revoking access rights, for > instance) what users/groups have what rights on the current document. You mean a kind of read-only version of the rights editor, listing only the entries with some rights set? I don't find it that useful right now. Could you look at http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Improvements/Rights ? > All these three proposals/ideas are mostly oriented to the use of XWiki > based information systems developed for groups with requirements about > access control and access monitoring. Nothing weird in industrial > environments, nor in biomedical ones. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
