I have a suggestion when it comes to the trial manager. I think it'd be useful to allow the creator of a trial to control how much power a collaborator has over the trial meta-data. So if you have 2 people with equal authority over a trial, they could both have access over the meta-data. Likewise, if a collaborator was just there to do one specific thing and it wasn't really their trial, then that collaborator wouldn't be given access to the trial meta-data.
I imagine it would be in the form of a checkbox for the trial creator in the manager - like "Allow collaborators to edit metadata?" or something like that.
[M] Allow control over collaborators
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Re: [M] Allow control over collaborators
I'd be in favor.
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Re: [M] Allow control over collaborators
I like the idea as well.
A related suggestion that could be considered: Allowing everyone registered on the forum (or perhaps those with permission) to make suggested edits. That is, they could open the trial, change something and "save" it; it would then be up to the author to accept or decline. The main purpose of this feature would be easier correction of typos: It is tedious to report typos in the forum, and hence it often doesn't happen. It is easier to make a suggested edit.
Of course, I am not suggesting that trials become Wiki-like multi-collaborator projects.
A related suggestion that could be considered: Allowing everyone registered on the forum (or perhaps those with permission) to make suggested edits. That is, they could open the trial, change something and "save" it; it would then be up to the author to accept or decline. The main purpose of this feature would be easier correction of typos: It is tedious to report typos in the forum, and hence it often doesn't happen. It is easier to make a suggested edit.
Of course, I am not suggesting that trials become Wiki-like multi-collaborator projects.
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Re: [M] Allow control over collaborators
I don't think a checkbox to open metadata edition to all collabs is a good option.
If you go this way, at some point you're bound to have someone who wants to have some collabs with the permission to edit the metadata and some without, and so on.
At this moment, the permission to edit metadata is the key to all database operations : the methods to save changes to the metadata and to delete the trial are protected by this permission.
This permission is currently only granted to the trial owner and the admins.
At this point, I don't really want to store new information in the V5 database, so I don't really want to create configurable permissions. It might be a possibility for the future, though it seems kind of overkill to me.
What I could do would be to increase the permissions of collaborators so they can edit the title and language as well, for example. I don't like the idea too much because it requires finer permission control, hence a higher chance of mistakes. Currently, it's simple : the entry point to database updates is completely cut off from a simple collaborator; here, I'd have to allow or disallow each type of DB update independently.
But it's possible, if you tell me it's really useful. I'm still not convinced (changing the title and language or playable status is not something that will happen evey day while editing...)
If you go this way, at some point you're bound to have someone who wants to have some collabs with the permission to edit the metadata and some without, and so on.
At this moment, the permission to edit metadata is the key to all database operations : the methods to save changes to the metadata and to delete the trial are protected by this permission.
This permission is currently only granted to the trial owner and the admins.
At this point, I don't really want to store new information in the V5 database, so I don't really want to create configurable permissions. It might be a possibility for the future, though it seems kind of overkill to me.
What I could do would be to increase the permissions of collaborators so they can edit the title and language as well, for example. I don't like the idea too much because it requires finer permission control, hence a higher chance of mistakes. Currently, it's simple : the entry point to database updates is completely cut off from a simple collaborator; here, I'd have to allow or disallow each type of DB update independently.
But it's possible, if you tell me it's really useful. I'm still not convinced (changing the title and language or playable status is not something that will happen evey day while editing...)
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Re: [M] Allow control over collaborators
Yeah, I'm in agreement with Unas here. I don't really see the need for more granular controls to... Edit metadata.
The distinction between playtesters and collabs is already the max level that should be necessary, IMO. Maybe there is a need for more, but.. I certainly can't find any off the top of my head.
The distinction between playtesters and collabs is already the max level that should be necessary, IMO. Maybe there is a need for more, but.. I certainly can't find any off the top of my head.
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Re: [M] Allow control over collaborators
Administrators?
Wait, there're already there with the power to change and delete everything with a single click.
Wait, there're already there with the power to change and delete everything with a single click.
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Re: [M] Allow control over collaborators
@ Unas: The specific problem that drove drvonkitty to post this topic (and the one I'm most concerned about) is that collaborators can't add playtesters. For me, everything else would be just a nice extra.
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Re: [M] Allow control over collaborators
Yeah that's ^^^^^ really all I personally would like from this suggestion.
