Few questions and possibly feature requests

Kocho — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:59:27 -0000

Hello! :)

All the best and hope you are great and everything well on your side of the world!

I just installed Web Collab 2.6.1 (webcollab-utf8-2.61.tar).
I have few questions:

Example scenario
ProjectA assigned to GroupA
ProjectB assigned to GroupB
Administrator is admin user.
UserA, UserAA, UserAAA are members of GroupA
UserB, UserBB, UserA are members of GroupB

Note: I've set all users and groups as private. I unchecked global access.

1. Problem: UserA creates a task TaskA within the ProjectA. UserA can assign TaskA to GroupA or GroupB. Why GroupB? The correct way should be either of these:
i. Automatically assign TaskA to GroupA because it is the only usergroup which has access to ProjectA or
ii. UserA can choose to assign TaskA to a member of GroupA

2. Problem: UserA creates a task TaskA within the ProjectA. UserA can choose the owner from a select box, even further the select box contains users from both groups to which UserA is a member UserA should be automatically owner of the task TaskA creates!

3. Why UserA or UserAA or anyother normal user can create any kind of project including toplevel projects?
I can understand being able to create child projects for the projects to which it has access as a normal user but I dont see that it is convenient to have a permission to create top-level projects!

4. Normal users, on the left side have the "::Users" menu section, within this section they can click "Manage" and see users on the right side. then they can click and see each others e-mail address. This is inconvenient. I dont want them to know each other email addresses.

5. At the Getting Started page, I read this:
"Private usergroups and private users can still be seen in publically accessible projects and tasks (i.e. global access is allowed). For total privacy make all projects and tasks private as well."
I clicked "Admin config" in "::Admin config" and I unchecked "Allow global access?".
Question: Is there another option in-order to make projects or tasks private?

6. You recommend "Use a non-root user for the database. The database user should have minimal privileges, and not be able to create and/or delete tables." - can you tell the exact privileges which are sufficient?

I can resolve many of these by commenting html code and etc. However, I wonder if I am missing something?

Thanks

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