[opencms-dev] OpenCms Not at all User Friendly

[Raj Malhotra]

Hi Georgi
It may sound silly to you as you may be one of the experts in OpenCms.But i
have just started working in OPenCms .I am working on a OpenCms application
which uses 6.2.3 version I have to migrate it to 7.0.4 version.
I will say that there is no true sequence to create a project.I will post
few questions which came to my mind
1.I want to create a website so should i start with creating project in
opencms or first should create folder structure.?

2.what to create first group or users. what i am doing after trying random
way is that first i am creating folder structure then i will create group
then user  assign user to group and finally will create project .This is my
suggestion that everything should be in wizard manner once you click on
create project ,you should be provided with options one by one and at the
end your project should be complete.ex like microsoft products.

3.I am totally confused with the users.groups and roles .How we are
assinging permission is not at all clear .Present way is not friendly .when
you create user you just assign group but i just cannot see where how
permmissions are assign or  how permission system is going to work.

4. once you create everything and righclick on the resource say  a jsp. And
you select permissions .you see userr permmissions,permssion inherited from
parent folders and resource permission.The following doubts are in mind
regarding this.

 a.user permission means if  i  login as Admin then   'user permission' on
resource means that admin has these permission on the jsp.


 b.looking at 'permissions inherited from parent folder' there  you have
Adminstrators ,Users,ProjectManagers group.I think that if login user is
Administrator then his available permsions are shown in Administrators
groups,If login user belongs to 'ProjectManagers' group then ProjectManager
group is showing his permission.

but then b is contradicting a.

c.finally resouce permission also there .so if all these is shown in the UI
what is the actual permissions fo login users how its determined if user
belongs to two groups.

I read something about 'Role based Acess Control' and heard lots of praise
for such system.I am not sure but if it makes OpenCms simpler then it should
be implemented.

I have looked this much only in OpenCms and i found permssion assingment
very complex.I have already posted many posts in last few days but didnt get
single answer.


regards
Raj

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Georgi Naplatanov <gosho at oles.biz> wrote:

> Hello, Raj
>
> can You explain, or give some examples for non user friendly behaviour
> of opencms ?
>
> Raj Malhotra wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am beginner in opencms.I think it is not at all user friendly
> application
> > . If you take example of  windows and linux .its more complex like
> linux.A
> > new person cant understand it easily.I wish it should be as easy as
> > windows.May be opencms community should work on making it more user
> > friendly.
> > thanks
> > Raj
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > This mail is sent to you from the opencms-dev mailing list
> > To change your list options, or to unsubscribe from the list, please
> visit
> > http://lists.opencms.org/mailman/listinfo/opencms-dev
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> This mail is sent to you from the opencms-dev mailing list
> To change your list options, or to unsubscribe from the list, please visit
> http://lists.opencms.org/mailman/listinfo/opencms-dev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://webmail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/attachments/20080403/be8988fe/attachment.htm>