Re: RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] ACL documentation

[Dave Hall]

Bonjour Olivier,

Could you please keep posts to this list in English, SVP.  We have a
French list at http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/phpgroupware-france/

Cheers

Dave

olivier laval <address@hidden>

> 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 :
> address@hidden
> 
> Olivier
> 
> 
> 
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> Envoyé : mercredi 6 août 2003 14:21
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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 
> possiblewith "professional" tools like Lotus Notes (that also cost 
> a lot, that means
> less coofee at break-time ;) ). We also believe that in few years, 
> quiteevery
> 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 
> modificationson
> phpgroupware for our internal use because we found that some
> functionnalities
> (mostly ergonomic) were lacking. For example, we modified some 
> inadaptedfont
> 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.langfiles (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 
> feelingwith
> computers ;)), our objective is to make it the most intuitive 
> possible, with
> evident on-screen functions, arrows, buttons, etc... We were also 
> thinkingon
> 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 
> (buttonsinstead 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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