Implement specific editors for user, organizational unit and group.

• Key: DIRSTUDIO-22
• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ersin Er
• Component/s: studio-ldapbrowser

Description

Users (inetOrgPerson), Groups (groupOfNames, groupOfUniqueNames, groupOfURLs) and Organizational Units (organizationalUnit) are the most frequently created/edited entries in a regular directory deployment. It would be nice to have specific editors for these types of entries. (So as you see, these are not simple value editors, but special entry editors based on entry object class.)

Some ideas (not originally mine):
* The User editor may display a picture of the user (if any exists) at the top left/right corner.
* The Group editor should be able to handle both static and dynamic groups, so it should also provide a filter editing capability for dynamic groups.

(For more ideas on this you may have a look at Fedora Directory Server's admin console.)

Comments

[Ersin Er]

Here are a few example screenshot from FDS:

Custom User Editor: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Image:Console_main_usergroupedit.png
Generic (Advanced) (User) Editor: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Image:Config_ds_advanced_editor.png
Custom Group Editor: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Image:Config_ds_newgroup.png

[Ersin Er]

The idea here can be extended to any type of entries, like Stored Procedures, Subentries, and even Directory Suffixes (a right click on the RootDSE can display a Create New Suffix menu item.) Also having a base system for such extensions would also be nice as the one we have for value editors: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxSTUDIO/Value+Editor+Extension+Point