An admin area (administrative area) of a website contains the controls available to the site owner which allow them to control various aspects of the site, particularly ones that are not available to regular users. Examples of controls often found in an admin area include managing user access, ...
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Should I combine multiple User and Group management panels into a single screen?
Currently I am developing a user and group management plugin for out application with ExtJs 4.1
This is my first version. I packed all into 1 window, each panel has its toolbar and user/group ...
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Importing and Updating Old Records within a Grid
I am in the process of designing a feature that allows a teacher to select students from the previous year who they used our product with, and be able to update the records of those students to the ...
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Should an admin decide what users can do, or should he decide what not to do?
Which one is better option for an admin from a usability point of view?
Suppose if a system is supposed to authorize a user to have access (and different type of access like read only or read write) ...
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Multiple admin sections (scopes) inside one web application
Im developing web application with quite complex configuration UI.
It contains multiple configuration scopes, for example in global scope you can configure host setting, logging and also create ...
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Different look and feel between administration and end user experience?
Lets say we have an app that performs something like surveys. There are two primary types of users, administrative users who set up and build the surveys, (who are actually the customers), and the ...
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Order of items in admin panel?
When editing a product, its variants are shown as accordion headings using twitter bootstrap; clicking on one reveals the form to edit the variant.
My question relates to the ordering of the items, ...
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Taxonomy Hierarchy Management UI Pattern
Overview
I have a custom lightweight web CMS I am developing. It has a feature that allows business users to define hierarchical taxonomies, add/edit/delete nodes, change their sort order relative ...
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Should action buttons be separate or part of a single toolbar?
This is a follow-up question from the previous question managing taxonomy hierarchies UI patterns.
Question: When an item in a list has action buttons that perform create/edit/delete actions, is ...
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How to make icons representing users differentiable when users do not have the same role/importance
Consider the administration part of a web application.
I want to display the list of all users, with a hierarchical structure like this:
admin 1
- sub admin 1
- sub admin 2
- simple user 1
- ...
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CMS Article intro text list with read more link
I have a list of articles and on the front end I want to display the title, content and then a read more link. The content can be long, so I want to show only the first portion of content in the list, ...
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What is a good name for non-administrator users?
Not sure if this is the proper place for this question. In my opinion, it is related to user experience, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
If you have a site/application that separate users with ...
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Role management with Parameters
I am currently developing a User management Form.
Each User can be assigned to multiple Roles. I would create this as 2 Listboxes with one showing all selected Roles and the other all unselected ...
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Why could “installing updates” not be listed as a distinct system restart reason in Windows Server?
When I install updates on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003 it often requires a system restart upon completion. When I use "Start"->"Restart" the dialog prompts me for a reason for the system ...
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Delete action on a user management system
I'm working on User Management System in ASP.NET MVC3. Administrator/Editor can search, insert, update and delete other users from the system.
What should I do when admin/editor clicks on Delete user ...
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Combining public and private interfaces on one page
In a UI like the new YouTube what is the benefit of having a separate "Video Manager" space - where you manage all your videos/ playlists over just allowing users to perform all those functions when ...
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Internal Vs. Consumer site UX
I am in the middle of designing a web application for a company that deals with institutions, there are both the end-user facing site (what the schools will see and use), and the "behind-the-scenes" ...
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Admin interfaces for reporting data
I am trying to design how an assigned administrator for a web app that manages students and audiobooks, can generate a report to view the data in longituginal graph. The admin can either view ...
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Admin Layout - where to put the categories list?
See the Admin layout (wireframe) below.
Header - Logo and Logout Link
Main navigation - Orders, Members, Shops, etc.
Sub-Navigation - List of links that is related to Main navigation. Eg: If you ...
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Where to put the link to admin section?
I have a website with searchable information for users (catalogue, search, item details, etc.). The site does not offer (and doesn't need) any log-in functionality (content is never personalised and ...
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Best wording for “edit X” button?
What is the best wording for an "edit section" button and why? The pages I am linking to will be for adding and editing existing items. For example it could contain one of:
Manage Pages
Add/Edit ...
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two different admin sections inside the same site?
If you have a site with two separate content sections,
and then a third section for Admin tasks, would you
find it confusing if the one of the content sections
had its own Admin section apart from ...
