Grouper Developers Forum

[Steven Carmody <>]

On 6/5/12 10:59 PM, Tom Barton wrote:
> 5. UI planning
> . report from Michael & Chris of their webex on grouper demo
> . do we have agreement on the following?
> . audiences
> . most important tasks each audience needs to accomplish
> . will there be one UI for all audiences, one per audience, or somewhere
> in between?
> . should we circulate audience/tasks matrix to grouper-users for feedback?
> . next steps
>
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Grouper+UI+redesign+v2.2#GrouperUIredesignv2.2-community
>
>
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Sample+UI+Redesign+Process

I'm going to try to make this call. But, our daughter has been visiting, 
and this afternoon we have to put her on a plane taking her back 
overseas. So, depending on how things go locally, I may miss the call.

Looking at the list of topics above, and the two urls, I don't see the 
word "audience" on either page ... where would I go to see "tasks each 
audience needs to accomplish" ?

Also,increasingly, here at Brown we're thinking of embedding a simple UI 
within various contexts (eg where an instructor manages groups and 
services to support their course; similar to the thinking behind Duke's 
Toolkit).

Also, #4 under Community requests:

> Visual display of groups impacting membership of a given group.
> Would  illustrate subgroups and composite factors, perhaps expanded by levels.

We think its VERY important to hide some of the "plumbing" from a user 
who is is tweaking a group that is based on data from a business system. 
They need to see the membership, but we think its just plain confusing 
to show them the base group and a separate GUESTS group, which are then 
combined into the *REAL* group.

Here's an example of what I mean (described in a posting on may 29):

> We have a potential mockup available here, and are interested in comments and 
> feedback:
>
> http://stc-test10.cis.brown.edu/Grouper-GUI/main-page.php