[katello-devel] UX project: redesign of permissions interface

[Partha Aji]

I think the Aeolus/ Conductor view presented is a little simplistic given the degree of detail with respect to the permission clauses in katello.
Look at some of the forms of permission clauses https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/PermissionMagic#PermissionExamples
The columns would not only need to indicate the verbs which vary by resource types (like provider, activation keys), they would need also indicate the scoping (org/global) and the tag instances. Also the "verbs" used for each of those types are different (not just simple CRUD for everything).  I would start by figuring out a way to represent a permission like
"Role Foo can Read providers P1 and P2 in Organization 1"  and then go along representing "user can modify systems in Organization 2" in the same grid.

My view on this at this point is that I can see definite value for some sort of summary on role, it could be something as simple as  text that shows up when we hover on a role to show the permissions that belong to it or some cool way to visualize that. 
As far as editing/creating perms is concerned I m not sure I would care that much for a grid view since the current UI neatly tries to classify things based on "Org Based Perms" vs "Global Perms". That is not to say they can't be improved but for me Role Summary is much more important than Role edit at this point..

Partha

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom McKay" <thomasmckay at redhat.com>
> To: "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>
> Cc: katello-devel at redhat.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 7:59:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [katello-devel] UX project: redesign of permissions interface
> 
> Yes, this is along the lines of what I had imagined. I'll sketch out
> some ideas during this sprint and see if I can get it added to the
> backlog.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>
> > To: "Tom McKay" <thomasmckay at redhat.com>
> > Cc: katello-devel at redhat.com, "Kyle Baker" <kybaker at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 4:33:57 PM
> > Subject: Re: UX project: redesign of permissions interface
> > 
> > Tom,
> > 
> > I haven't explored how the Roles UI works in Katello but I worked
> > on
> > some designs for a similar usecase on Aeolus/ Conductor. See
> > attached. This was an initial idea that was well-liked but not sure
> > if it was finally scoped in or not ( This was a long time ago). But
> > I think it definitely points at one of the use cases that you are
> > talking about in some form. We can come up with some proposals if
> > it
> > is something that is a candidate for one of the upcoming sprints.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Malini
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tom McKay" <thomasmckay at redhat.com>
> > To: "Malini Rao" <mrao at redhat.com>, "Kyle Baker"
> > <kybaker at redhat.com>
> > Cc: katello-devel at redhat.com
> > Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 4:17:32 PM
> > Subject: UX project: redesign of permissions interface
> > 
> > 
> > Although the current permissions interface for adding to a role is
> > well crafted, I continually find that it is very difficult to use
> > for my primary two use cases: Seeing what permissions a role has,
> > and setting up the permissions for a new role. Yes, these are
> > probably the two most primary use cases. :)
> > 
> > I keep wishing for some sort of spreadsheet or table view where, at
> > a
> > glance, I can both see and modify the permissions with checkbox
> > toggles. Maybe it's not a single table, but multiple small tables.
> > I'm sure some UX magic can be applied to this notion.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to get some thoughts on this?
> > 
> 
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