Folders solve a long running issue with Xibo permissions where users being added/removed from/to user groups didn’t have their new permissions carried over. This is because the old v2 settings for “default permissions” are only applied to new objects. Applying them to edited objects is not practical either, because the user may well have gone on to make adjustments to the sharing on the item as they saw fit.
Folders solve this issue, and more, because you can give a user group permission to a folder and they can share content between them without sharing the individual items.
There are several users I know of which find folders to be a much better workflow than what they had before, but we’d like the product to work for as many use cases as possible, and we do want to get sharing/permissions right if we can.
I’ve picked out a few things we can work on from both of your posts:
Folders:
- drag and drop items between folders
- remember the folder selected on each page not globally
- prevent users from saving into the root folder
- collapsed folder menu for smaller screens
Sharing
- find some way of automatically sharing content (view/edit/delete) with users who belong to the same group
You can certainly make everyone a group admin and broadly get this functionality already (they can delete too, as you pointed out).
A “quick and simple” thing we could do is have a global option which enables view/edit for all group members. What we struggle with here though is that users can belong to multiple groups and we don’t have a concept of “group owner” on items.
We will throw some ideas around - further input is always welcome.
Searching
Combined with my other v3 problem that the search in the filter bar ist useless because you can’t “AND” things
We have this on our list to look at, but for obvious reasons we can’t change it in a minor release, so it will be looked at for v4. For reference this is your post about it.
Thanks,
Dan