Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Merging of /admin and /acs-admin

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Posted by Joel Aufrecht on
It seems to me that most of the administrative functions in OpenACS are sound, and that most of the admin usability problems are labelling and organization.  I see only two fundamental issues that may need serious code to fix:
1) the sitewide/per-site split
2) the bewildering terminology for user groups (Group Type, Relational Segment, Relational Type, Composition Relation, Membership Relation - a set of words that could arguably be hidden/simplified in presentation until only "group" remained)

For everything else, there's re-arranging.  Here's my first stab at identifying commonalities between the admin functions:

https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-HEAD/images/adminia.png