Re: Simple backend UI enhancement proposition

Posted by David E Jones on Jan 22, 2007; 5:13am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Simple-backend-UI-enhancement-proposition-tp143920p143924.html


So, you're thinking of more of a permission system?

-David


On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Anil Patel wrote:

> If we have Form meta data in Database then we can enhance the screen
> rendering system to read field visibility attribute from the database.
> So lets say, userLogin.userId belongs to Casher User group. So when
> rendering a ScreenA::FormX, System will look for visibility  
> attributes of
> fields on FormX as part of ScreenA for Casher userGroup.
>
> I have seen PeopleSoft does this.
>
> Regards
> Anil Patel
>
> On 1/21/07, David E. Jones <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:33 AM, Anil Patel wrote:
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>> > This is great, Can we do this, Save Screen and Form definition in
>> > Database
>> > (Sceeen and Form widget file will loaded into database.), Party  
>> Group
>> > Preferences set of Entities can be designed to store the
>> > information like
>> > which field should be visible/hidden for a Party Group..
>> > By doing this we can customize what user sees on the Screen.
>>
>> This sounds quite a bit different from what Jacques was proposing,
>> but if I understand right what you are proposing this is something
>> I'm happy to write long and loud against.
>>
>> What would we gain by putting these things into the database?
>>
>> What will we lose by putting these things into the database?
>>
>> I'm interested in your thoughts so I won't answer these quite yet,
>> though if you (or anyone) is interested in my answer this is
>> something I've written about in the past quite a bit and you'll find
>> stuff in the old mailing list archives. Still, I'd rather hear
>> other's opinions about it before I express my own, just to make sure
>> I don't miss anything that people might not want to say when I come
>> down hard on this. As I mentioned above, I have very strong opinions
>> about this and these are based on some very bad experiences.
>>
>> -David
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