Re: [Tiki-devel] Status in object_link

[Jean-Marc L. <jea...@gm...>]

Hi Patrick,

I'm a bit dismayed at one little part of your mail: I have put into Tiki
the module "groups_emulation" for the exact purpose of what you have so
much difficulty achieving: «Enables temporarily changing one's group
memberships to see how users in fewer groups experience the site.»
without the need to switch to another user.

So it looks like it's totally unused, why?
Did you not know about it? Do you think it does not work well enough?

Either way, how can we address that?

Cheers,
J-M


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Patrick Proulx <pat...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi Johnny,
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> The view as admin only is an ok solution (we use the statuses in trackers
> so hiding them altogether isn't an option).
>
> It still adds an unnecessary element (to me anyway) to the screen for
> admins and as an admin, I like to be able to keep the admin options away
> from the general user components as much as possible so that I'm able to
> see what a general user sees. I hate having to do a switch to a non-admin
> user just to test and see what the site looks like to them.
>
> It might just be me though and it's not that big of a deal since I can
> continue to just hide it with CSS. I just like things to be as 'clean' as
> possible so I like to remove anything that's unnecessary and I was having a
> hard time coming up with use cases where this icon would actually prove
> useful, so I thought I'd bring it up to see if others were using that
> little icon and if it would make sense to have an option to disable it.
>
> Thanks!
> Pat
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Jonny Bradley <jo...@ti...> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Patrick
>>
>> Does it not obey the tracker status visibility settings? You should be
>> able to set it (in the edit tracker dialog) to only show status to admins
>> which might do what you want - maybe?
>>
>> jonny
>>
>>
>> On 28 Aug 2014, at 22:28, Patrick Proulx <pat...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hey everyone,
>> >
>> > Working through our activity stream, I noticed that object_link
>> automatically sets up a status icon, if you're using statuses on your site.
>> >
>> > We generally just use css to hide it, but I was wondering if anyone
>> actually wanted this to show up (I can think of very few cases where this
>> might be helpful).
>> >
>> > I can imagine this being a source of confusion to those new to Tiki
>> more than anything.
>> >
>> > From our end, we use the statuses so we want to keep them enabled, but
>> we don't want the icon to show up every time we use an object_link.
>> >
>> > The cleanest way to do this would be to just create another pref to
>> enable/disable the icon and setting it to enabled by default, but I'm
>> wondering if it's worth adding another pref.
>> >
>> > Anyhow, I just wanted to get some general thoughts on this.  (See image
>> for example)
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > <Selection_064.png>
>> >
>> > Patrick Proulx
>> > IT Project Manager
>> > Synergiq Solutions
>> > 613-325-0533
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>> >
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