[mapguide-users] Permissions Model, restricting layers and error logging

[Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S]

I have seen others requesting that on this list before.
I think its a candidate for an RFC:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfcs

I think there were tickets requesting this, but now I can't find any :(.

And I agree with James Card.
There is no gain in passing an error message to a user, as it confuses 
them, and they have no power to change it.
The log files is the place to go when something goes wrong.

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S



James Card skrev:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008 15:40:31 -0700, Dave Wilson 
> <dave.wilson at autodesk.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone desired such functionality or alternately built maps on 
>> the fly to add layers based on what their uses have rights to?
>
> Yes, and yes.
>
> Ideally the authoring environment would allow me to set user-level 
> and/or group-level permissions on any object in the repository and 
> have those permissions apply seamlessly to all child objects. Another 
> feature that some of our clients request is integration with Active 
> Directory authentication mechanisms. We've built this for our MapGuide 
> 6.5 clients, but it would be great to see this capability available 
> for MapGuide Enterprise or MapGuide OS out of the box.
>
> Permissions violations (and other errors) should always be reported in 
> the authoring environment but never in the user client. The only error 
> message I'd ever want to be reported client-side is a very generic one 
> like "Some elements of this page did not load properly. You can notify 
> the server administrator at mapmaster at my.domain."; and that should be 
> optional so that the application could be configured to NEVER display 
> error reports of any kind client-side. Then the administrator can use 
> the authoring tools and server logs to discover the specifics of the 
> error.
>