Forum OpenACS Development: Granting permissions.

For a client project I am having to rewrite the grant permissions pages.

Major problems:

1. You are given a drop down list of users. This is a joke when you have 500 or more users and you need to find one. (On a side note we also have modified the user-search page to show email and first/last name. Another ridiculous side effect of never testing a system with more than 20 users. Person is a waste of a table the way it is now. More about this in another thread.)
2. The same thing about drop down lists applies to permissions to a lesser extent.
3. You can't return to your original admin page as there is no return_to parameter in the code.
4. The code is old fashioned non-templatized .tcl pages. My graphics designer loves this.

I have made a quick hack already to do a decent user search. Still missing:

1. Need to return to the original meeting, happening and etc.
2. Probably should show only relevant permissions (i.e. don't show content permissions for bboard)
3. This should all be templatized. I started this on dev, but haven't finished.
4. We need to use named objects so that a number doesn't show up all the time.
5. ?? You tell me...

Any other comments/suggestions?

Since ACS/tcl is really now, openacs that is where everything will go.