RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] ACL documentation

[olivier laval]

Bonjour Léonard Wauters,

Le developpement de votre module m'interesse car il se trouve que je
commence à développer un module avec les mêmes fonctionnalités.

Pourriez-vous me contacter :
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Olivier



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Objet : [Phpgroupware-developers] ACL documentation


Hello everybody,

I started interesting myself on phpgroupware for 4 months now, mostly
because
we want to use it in our company to help us working in a nomad way. We found
the project very interresting and promising, with no comparison possible
with "professional" tools like Lotus Notes (that also cost a lot, that means
less coofee at break-time ;) ). We also believe that in few years, quite
every
company will be using this kind of tool to help organisate and to lead to a
better management.
Later, we intend to distribute it to other companies, as a complement of our
main activity : management council and quality in little companies.
We also intend to develop a new module wich deals with file management, like
phpwebhosting, but with extra functionalities, like file sharing and
per-file
right management, in order to :
-make possible file sharing between users without copying files to a group
folder,
-create folders with read-only rights for some users
-keep exsisting phpwebhosting functionnalities (upload, download, rename,
and
per-user private directory with the ability of creating folders, files
etc...)
I already talked with Jason Wies (VFS Class developper) and Jonathon Sim in
order to get some advices and to be sure how not to interfere with an
existing
project.
However, I am still not a specialist in programming in phpgw environment. In
fact, the main lack for me is API documentation, mostly about ACL
management.
I found a document on axisgroupware.org that deal with inheritance, but I'm
seraching for some others docs. Unfortunately, docs.phpgroupware.org is
closed,
and I don't know other resources.
So, if someone have some papers about ACL, can he send me by mail or give me
the url ? Any extra doc will also be well-accepted ;)

One more thing I would like to talk about. We have made some modifications
on
phpgroupware for our internal use because we found that some
functionnalities
(mostly ergonomic) were lacking. For example, we modified some inadapted
font
sizes that were hard-coded on the calendar module (function css()), put some
return buttons where they were lacking (like in email module, when you read
a
message, there is no button in the bottom of the page to get back to the
folder
you were in just before). We also made some modifications on phpgw_fr.lang
files (we are a french company), because some translations were inadapted.
Sometimes, the same messaage identifier was used in two different modules
(so
they called the same french sentence) but it was more adapted to have two
different translations. Finally, we modified some templates in order to make
phpgroupware display well in a 800x600 window (ie. with no sliders), and it
was
quite dificult sometimes...
The most difficult part was to modifiy the addressbook module, where a lot
of
fields were inadapted to our activity (like Suffix, Middle name, not used in
France, or Message phone, car phone, public key, etc...), mostly because all
fields are hard-coded in the addressbook classes.
As we intend to distribute phpgroupware to people that are not used to
manipulate this kind of software (and that do not have a very good feeling
with
computers ;)), our objective is to make it the most intuitive possible, with
evident on-screen functions, arrows, buttons, etc... We were also thinking
on
putting some javascript pop-up helps to facilitate the use of the portal for
those who are not accustomed with it.
I would like to know if there will be any major change in ergonomy (buttons
instead of links, better display of some infrmations, etc...) in the next
release, and what importance is given to the ergonomy in the project. In
fact,
if the portal is intuitive enough, anyone could use it without having to do
a
training period.
Congratulations to most of people who developped the modules, of course we
liked it and found it fantastic. even if on our point of view, there is some
little extra work to do, we found some modules great.
I apologise for my poor english ;)

Sincerely,

Leo.


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