Grouper Developers Forum

>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.
This is straightforward to do, however, we would need to consider navigation 
issues. In principle, you could get sidetracked into looking at another 
group's membership, and then another's. We would want a breadcrumb or some 
other device to allow the user to retrace their steps.

We also have to take into account privileges. I may have READ privilege for 
group A but not VIEW privilege for a group B which is a member of group A.

>My second thought 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?
This hasn't been explicitly planned. It shouldn't be too difficult to 
implement.

Privileges would come into play again.
 
>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