[Design] User Interface for Group management in Cosmo

[Brian Moseley]

any thoughts on this stuff, design list? vinu isn't asking for formal
design work, but maybe some ideas for a "raw" interface not unlike the
one we have in cosmo today for managing users.

more inline...

On 1/6/07, Vinubalaji Gopal <vinubalaji at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have been thinking about a user interface for group based
> management and I am not able to finalize on a nice design :(
>
> Here are the requirements:
> Each group can have any number of users or groups.
> Each user or group can belong to many groups.
> Creation of a group requires a single parameter called group name.
>
> If we just follow the user creation interface, we just need to show a
> pop up widget which will contain a single field called the group name.
> Once a group  is created we can add members to a group using one of
> this options:
>
> 1. A drag and drop of all the different users and groups
> (see http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/tests/dnd/test_dragcopy.html)
> 2. A Google suggest kind of interface where you can try to type a
> member name and Cosmo will list out the possible member names.
> 3. Some other kind of drag and drop where multiple members can be
> selected and added together.

some variation of drag and drop seems appropriate. the "suggestion
box" thing would probably be useful as an addition to dnd.

> Groups can be listed similar to users with just the groupname,
> creation time and deletion time. If we go with this view, do we need
> to support pagination of groups?

yes.