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  • From: Tom Barton <>
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  • Subject: navigating the membership graph
  • Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:14:08 -0600

Some of us were having an out of band discussion on UI capabilities for listing a group's membership. We appear to have settled on the UI allowing the user to select whether they want immediate only, effective only, or immediate + effective memberships listed.

This gave rise to the first of 2 thoughts in my head. If a listed member is another group, can it be presented as a clickable link to take the user to the group summary page for that group? That would take the user a step in the "hasMember" direction in the graph of all groups in the registry.

My second though is that it would be useful to also be able to navigate in the "isMemberOf" direction. That would mean that for any subject (especially the 'group' subjectType) the UI should list the groups of which that subject is a member, and there'd again be the issue of selecting whether those memberships will be immediate only, effective only, or immediate + effective.

Are such things already in the plans for the UI?

By the way, I'm using the terms "hasMember" and "isMemberOf" quite specifically. Cf. http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/docs/draft-internet2-mace-dir-group-membership-latest.htm

Tom



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