Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Question regarding further development

[Jason Wies]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 04:47:33PM +0200, Koller Daniel wrote:
> 
> Hallo all,
> 
> my name is Daniel Koller, and I'm currently planning (and preparing) the
> usage of phpGroupWare as an "intranet"-tool for a sports event in 2004 in
> Munich (www.eurogames2004.de). I ask you to comment on my questions
> regarding further development of phpGW in order to see where we need own
> development (which we will for sure give back to the project), and where the
> project walks in the direction, where we want to go.
> 
> - For more efficient access rights management, I would propose to make also
> groups able to get members of other groups. As far as I see the API, it
> would then be needed to change the function for access control. This
> modification would lead to a more simple management, because then you could
> build up a group hierachy with perhaps predefined application settings etc.

If you want to say "give group B access to group A's 
files/appointments/todos/etc.", the API already supports that.  Calendar is the 
best example of that I think.  However, I don't think the ACL is considered a 
finished product at all, so if you have ideas on improvement they are welcome.

> - Filemanager: My idea is that we need a kind of small document management
> system (storing documents in the database), with at least a better overview
> over the existing documents and structures.

Have you looked at the 'phpwebhosting' module?  It is the current filemanager 
for 0.9.14 on.  The documents themselves are not stored in the database, but 
file attributes, journal entries, etc. are kept in the database (VFS class 
handles that).

Jason Wies aka Zone