Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] categories, ACL and VFS

[Chris Weiss]

how about a concpet like inheritance for categories?

you could have a global global called clients, then a global addressbook clients
that would include the items from the global global but have it's own acl for
addressbook, then a user could make an address book cat so for his own acl 
addon's
that would inheret/override the acl from the addressbook global for his own 
items

kinda complex, just a thought

Dave Hall (address@hidden) wrote:
>
>> I forgot another point: I think a new model for categories/folders
>> should include defining ACL. Adminstrators and users should be able to
>> define for whom objects in a folder are visible and editable. Thus
>> applications could make use of folder-level ACL without any extra
>> work.
>
>I think we are really just talking about enhancing categories, not folders.
>I think category based ACLs would be good, but then you also have the issue
>of "global global categories".  Say I have a global global category called
>Clients, which is used in addressbook, calendar and sitemgr.  In this case I
>may require seperate ACL for each app, this is something that would need to be
>factored in.  I am not saying this is a bad idea, just the implications need
>to be thought through.  I think the ACL2 system which seek3r started on could
>be useful for such a system - to allow inheritted rights and masks.
>
>> And another idea: I think the VFS should make use of such a folder
>> system too! Thus users would not have a separate filemanager, but they
>> could create their files in the same place they put their addresses,
>> appointments, webpages, etc.
>
>I think this is more an issue of a view of the data.  There could be an app
>developed which dynamically pulls together a nice view for all this data.
>Each app could have a (set of) hook(s) for the "folder view app", this would
>remove the need for forced dependencies while still offering a flexible view of
>data the user has access to.  Maybe this could be done through infolog or
>some new app.
>
>Cheers
>
>Dave
>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> address@hidden a écrit:
>>
>> > I want to second Alex' enthousiasm about the idea of rethinking and
>> > extending the way categories work in phpgroupware. I think, currently
>> > they are underutilized because a view and an interaction like Philip
>> > proposes is missing. I want to a suggestion that I have already
>> > submitted as a feature request on savannah:
>> > It would be nice if there were a hook for defining data an application
>> > wants to store for a cateogry, and in the administration interface for
>> > categories, application specific input elements are appended to the
>> > standard input elements for defining category name and description.
>> > As an example, in news_admin in HEAD you can configure RSS exports for
>> > each category. Instead of having a separate UI for this configuration,
>> > it could be done on the same page the category is defined.
>> >
>> > Michael
>>
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>>
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