Re: [limesurvey-developers] Status update: Survey translation

[Marcel M. (Limesurvey) <mar...@li...>]

Thanks for clarifying, this all makes sense and is a good approach!
> Marcel
>
> Sorry for not being clear enough about this.
>
> What Carsten and I discussed, was to create a survey specific right to 
> translate.  This would mean you could set up a translation agency as a 
> user that will have the access rights to translate only the surveys to 
> whom they have been allocated (i.e. similar to browse reponses).  In 
> addition, it clearly makes sense that administrators and survey 
> creators have access to this.  I think if you do it this way, there is 
> no need to actually flag a survey as being open for translation, 
> because the rights are defined at user level.
>
> (No doubt there will be complications and issues once I get to this 
> point, but I imagine this to be a few weeks from now.)
>
> Andrie
>
> On 08/10/2010 10:52, Marcel Minke (Limesurvey) wrote:
>> Hi Andrie,
>>
>> this looks very promising, thanks for all your work.
>>
>> I think you already know but at Limesurvey there are general user 
>> rights like "create surveys" 
>> (http://docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=Manage+users&structure=English+Instructions+for+LimeSurvey) 
>> and survey specific rights like "browse responses" 
>> (http://docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php?page=Survey+security+settings&structure=English+Instructions+for+LimeSurvey).
>>
>> Do you want to add both, a general user right "translate surveys" and 
>> a survey specific right for each survey to translate it which can be 
>> assigned to users? Or do you want to add a "enable translation" 
>> survey setting so that these surveys are shown to "translation"-users 
>> if the setting is enabled?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Marcel
>>
>>> Dear developers
>>>
>>> Here is a quick status update on the development of the survey 
>>> translation feature.
>>>
>>> I had a discussion with Carsten earlier this week, and we agreed on 
>>> the following:
>>>
>>>    1. I have joined the development team, and have access to the
>>>       codeline
>>>    2. Since this feature is in some senses a standalone feature, it
>>>       is a good project for a newbie, so I'll do a substantial
>>>       amount of work by myself, with some mentoring by Carsten
>>>
>>> And we made some architectural decisions:
>>>
>>>    1. This feature will be built into the main admin functionality
>>>       of LimeSurvey.  This requires translators to login, but it
>>>       maintains the security model.
>>>    2. So, step one is to create a "survey translation" screen.
>>>    3. Step two is to create a new user security type, called
>>>       translator.  Only users with translation rights will be able
>>>       to access this screen.  The survey administrator will be able
>>>       to create new users with translator status, so this requires a
>>>       change to the survey security part of the system
>>>
>>> My approach will be as follows:
>>>
>>>    1. Create the admin screen, and restrict access to administrator
>>>       users.  This step allows me to build and test most of the core
>>>       functionality, and get an alpha quality demonstration built
>>>       into the system as soon as possible.
>>>    2. Modify the survey security elements to create a new user type.
>>>
>>> I shall post occasional status updates to the mailing list, and will 
>>> let you know once I start submitting my changes to the dev codeline.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Andrie
>>>
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