Realised how this is happening, it is still a bug but slightly different
to what I initially thought. It is to do with a view having previously
belonged to a collection and then being removed.
I created 2 more pages and a second collection.
Then I added both the pages to the second collection.
On the 'Share' tab I now had:
[edit access] page one
collection one
[edit access] collection two
Then I removed a page from the second collection (so it was independent again).
On the 'Share' tab I now have:
[edit access button] page one
collection one
[edit access button] page I just removed from collection two
collection two
And if I select to edit the access of the page that I removed from
collection two then I have both that page and collection two selected on
the next page.
Pinned it down to the new accessconf value in the view table, introduced
in version 2010122201, as it is still the same as the view remains in
the collection. So this needs to be unset somewhere.
I personally still don't like the double up of page/collection selection
between Share and Access pages.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/721316
Title:
collection and view access/share 1.4
Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
New
Bug description:
Re: http://wiki.mahara.org/Roadmap/3_Views - 3.3 Improvements to
Access Control as it currently is in 1.4dev.
With the new UI if I have a single independent page and a collection
containing other pages I found the following:
- I went to the 'Share' tab and there was only an edit access icon
next to the single page not the collection.
I would expect that I could edit the access for collections as well as
individual pages?
- when I clicked to edit the single page I was taken to the access
page as expected, but in here there are two checkboxes at the top of
the page: one for the collection and one for the page I was expecting.
Both selected by default. Unfortunately I only saw these too late and
ended up changing the access for everything - collection and single
page.
I only wanted to change the access for my single page (partially LIES!
this was actually the only thing I was given the option to edit on the
previous page).
This appears to be a change in aid of bulk access editing, though
there is still no mention of this on the page and I only wanted update
the access for a single page.
Having these checkboxes here and selected by default means that I
either need to make my selection twice with the second "selection"
being a matter of "de-selection" or once (if we eliminated the
original screen) and then only by a process of "de-selection".
Selection of pages/collections to be updated should IMO only happen on
one page - so we should either eliminate the first screen or remove
the boxes from the second.
To remedy this mess I had to select to change access for my single
page again, deselect the page that I have just selected to change
access for, so that only the collection is checked, and then update
back to what I wanted. Wash, rinse, repeat if there had been any other
collections/pages (which would have been painful!). Though admittedly
I might have noticed as the checkbox list would have been larger and
more obvious.
I would personally prefer to be able to choose the item(s) I wish to
update and then be taken to a page knowing that it is just for my
selected items. A la the old access UI but with the addition of being
able to select bulk lots somehow.
At the very least collections definitely should be showing an Edit
Access button of their own on the first screen.
Don't want this current setup to slip through to release in April and
cause problems with existing accesses ...
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