[rt-users] Announcing: RTx::RightsMatrix 0.02.04

[Todd Chapman]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:31:27PM +0100, Torsten Brumm wrote:
> Hi Todd,
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:59:38AM +0100, Torsten Brumm wrote:
> > > Hi Todd,
> > > 
> > > Great work! This makes admin life easier!!! What do you think to 
> > > extend this Tools with addidional Features?
> > > 
> > > 1. Did you know the Patch from Mr. Pape "HideGlobalScrips" 
> > ? It would 
> > > be great to have all this under the same Tools / Rights 
> > Matrix or do 
> > > you think this is a too heavy mixture?
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with it. Where can I find it?
> 
> This is at the private Page from Mr. Pape:
> http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~pape/rt3screenshots/
> 
> There is a problem with the download, so i will attach this to this mail.
> This works good for version 3.2 of RT, i'm just fighting to implement at the
> 3.44 release. I think this makes really sense to add to this RTxRights Add
> On, it's not directly handle with rights but with scrips and so on and this
> helps also very good for easy admin.

It's not rights related so I don't think adding it is a good idea.

> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 2. Something like i know from Novell, ist called: "Who has rights 
> > > here" what i mean you pick a queue and as feedback you get 
> > every group 
> > > or person with the attached rights.
> > 
> > That would be hard to display in a summary form, I think. If 
> > you put an example html or ascii are together I would 
> > consider it. It would also be processor heavy; you would be 
> > calling HasRight on an object for every group+user * each right.
> 
> OK, let me try to exlain in deep what i mean. 
> 
> The Input must be a queue, so a dropdown for a queue will help. The Result
> will bring the following:
> 
> Queuename: Testqueue1
> 
> 		OwnTicket	AdminQueue		CreateTicket
> 
> Group1:	y		y			y
> Group2:	n		y			y
> 
> User1:	y		y			y
> (Member of Group1)
> User2:	n		y			y
> (Member of Group2)
> 
> Somethnig like this.

That would be easy to do. I'll add it if I have the time.

> 
> Another idea is a feature i know also from Novell Netware but let me explain
> the situation first:
> 
> Many times we get requests from users (let me say user1) like: pls create
> user2 and grant him the same rights like me. Then you can start to figure
> out the rights and memberships of User1 and add user2 to the sme groups and
> so on. In netware there was a feature where you can say a the user creation
> or admin page: Grant rights from: user-xyz 
> 
> This would also be a dream ;-)

Another good idea, but doesn't belong in this package. RTx::CloneUser
woule be easy to write though...

> 
> Torsten
> 				
> > 
> > >  What do you think about this ideas?
> > > 
> > > Callto://torsten_brumm
> > > 
> > >  Thanks in advance
> >