[Plone-UI] Re: Change_ownership link still not optimal

[Florian Schulze]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:46:32 +0200, Danny Bloemendaal 
<danny.bloemendaal at companion.nl> wrote:

> I see now that there is a Creators field in the properties page. That's 
> good. But the byline still shows change_ownership. Since the byline 
> shows the creator and nothing about ownership at all (it's a hidden role 
>   thing) I'd say that *if* we show a link in the byline, it should be 
> linked to creationship and not ownership. After all, it shows the 
> creator. The current implementation doesn't make sense.
>
> So, there are the following options:
>
> 1. We remove the change ownership link (col) and leave it like that. 
> Users can go to properties to change the creator.
>
> 2. We remove the col and replace it with a link that allows you to 
> set/edit the creators field as a separe edit form
>
> 3. We remove the col and replace it with a link that allows you to go to 
> the props page.
>
> My favor is 2 because with option 3, you get to see too much and it 
> isn't clear that you have to scroll down and edit that single field to 
> change the creator(s).
>
> Then there is a problem with change_ownership. I think this should be 
> moved to the sharing page in some way.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Danny.

+1 on number 2, I did something similar for a customer and it works 
nicely. I give them a list of existing creators (catalog lookup of unique 
items) from which they can choose. For managers it's possible to edit it 
by hand.

Florian Schulze