PermissionManager User Permissions and Roles Long Exhaustive List

[exorgroup]

I have implemented this package in the project- thanks for saving some good time

This project may have over 30 tables and each table will require CRUD and print option as well. How everything is set up this means that there will be a very long list of permissions that can get users confused - example country_create, country_edit, country_delete, country_view, country_print and then town_create, town_edit, town_delete, town_view, town_print etc etc etc

Was wondering if there is a possibility of grouping these together so at least the user can see like a heading Country and then the roles attributed to that - ideally having like a collapsible setup so they do not need to scroll through 150 rows or more

Simple way of grouping could be using the underscore to pipe to delineate the groups like setup_country_create, setup_town create and finance_invoice_create. This would imply a structure as following

Setup >

• Country >
  • Create
• Town >
  • Create

Finance >

• Invoice >
  • Create

Thanks

[pxpm]

Hey there @exorgroup , thanks for the suggestion. At the moment we don't have nothing like that, but nothing stopping you from building a field like that yourself 🙏

It's an interesting use-case tho, so maybe more people would be interested in it. we are currently running a poll where users can suggest and vote for the next features we will build, so maybe you can suggest it there too: #751

If more people are interested in something like this we may give it the proper priority.

You can add this, or any suggestion you see fit there.

Cheers

[exorgroup]

@pxpm I have updated a bit more and I think it may be a better design option - it has highlight on the row and icons for create/add/new, update/edit, delete, read/view and print - what do you think?

[pxpm]

ok ... this is starting to get spicy. 🌶️ 🤓

I have mixed feelings from the icons. From one side, I like it, I like "button states", I think they "clean up" the UI a lot.
But my "devil advocate" says me that this is not as "accessible" as a check box with a text (or a switch).
For example it makes more difficult to assert which ones are active from the ones that are inactive when only colors change.
It makes it completely unusable for color impaired people, and it is only "mental recognizable" for this "common" use cases, any other icons out of the "ordinary create, edit, preview etc" start to need docs alongside them.

If I would change checkbox for buttons, I would still make something show up on button indicating that's active, similar to the checkbox, and with the permission text, something like:

I would also probably remove the "Permissions" text on top of the "quick links" since you get it again down in the table.

The a,b,c,d,e etc also looks a little bit out of place, I would either center it or make it full width. It would probably look a little bit better without the top and bottom borders too.

While on it, I would probably change "quick links" for "FILTER:". "FILTER: A | B | C | D | E .. "

This are my personal views and opinions, it's totally fine to have a completely different opinion than mine and still stand correct. There is nothing stopping you from supporting "multiple point of views" in your project, or supporting only yours. It's totally up to you since you are the one putting in the effort 💪

You are doing a good job, keep it up, ping me if you need my help with something or just to give a feedback 🙏

[exorgroup]

@pxpm

State > I agree with your argument that it makes a bit difficult to assert - will work to have some other visual clue as suggested

Quick links to filter - I agree that quick links might not be the right words to use but I have reservations to the use of the word filter as well as when a filter is clicked than it is assumed that the list is reduced in some way - this just jumps/scrolls to that location - potentially need to hit the thesaurus for a better word to jump

What I would like some help on is to introduce some parameters for example FilterText (gives the user the option whatever text they want instead of Quick Links), TextOnly to have buttons showing only text etc. Can you provide me some help how that can be achieved please?

Thanks

[pxpm]

Maybe Navigation then ? I thought you were about to implement some ajax or even js filtering, so that I click on "A", and only A started entries are show. It would also be good to identify differently the letters that has no "functions" associated.

Probably the more straightforward way is by creating JS objects of the permissions/functions, and then use some sort of filtering on the javascript collections when the user writes on an input. This does not required an ajax endpoint and since you already have all the information on page you can just manipulate it with javascript.

About the configs, you can have a key on your field definition that allow developer to setup some configs like:

CRUD::field('my_custom_checklist')
    ->type('advanced_checklist')
    ->uiOptions([
        'textOnly' => true, 
        'withIcon' => false,
// .. etc

Cheers

[exorgroup]

@pxpm
I have updated again the UI based your feedback as points as they made sense to me - I am also using the people list example in tabler.io for the scroller. Let me know you thoughts about it please

[exorgroup]

@pxpm
it has been a while since I developed this. I am working on new project and wanted to share the updated versions. Open to comments - might remove the icons and replace with text only on a particular version. Why one click there are 2 visual elements indicating the status - the colour and the check mark both change based on state