group management (on a massive scale)

[Anthony Ettinger-4]

I have a requirement to create a user interface for managing large
numbers of members and groups.
I've seen a few examples on this list, but most of them break down
when there is more than a handful of members to work with.

The basic idea is that a user will be able to create a group (50
groups on the high end), and assign members to one or more groups
(needs to support 500 members on the high end).

The other rub is that I want to be able to see all the groups that a
member is associated with in the same interface used to manage the
groups that a member belongs to.

Could someone point me to any examples of such an interface, or offer any ideas?

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[Karl Lattimer-2]

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 10:08 -0700, Anthony Ettinger wrote:

> I have a requirement to create a user interface for managing large
> numbers of members and groups.
> I've seen a few examples on this list, but most of them break down
> when there is more than a handful of members to work with.
>
> The basic idea is that a user will be able to create a group (50
> groups on the high end), and assign members to one or more groups
> (needs to support 500 members on the high end).
>
> The other rub is that I want to be able to see all the groups that a
> member is associated with in the same interface used to manage the
> groups that a member belongs to.
>
> Could someone point me to any examples of such an interface, or offer any ideas?
>

Is this a matter of a tree where both members and groups need to be
visible, or where one or the other is visible?

The best example I can think of for this kind of UI is a double list
sidebar rather than a tree, something like this
http://nettuts.s3.amazonaws.com/103_NTPlus_AddressBook/res/inspiration.png

from apples address book.

BR,
 K

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[Calum Benson]

On 14 Oct 2009, at 18:08, Anthony Ettinger wrote:

> Could someone point me to any examples of such an interface, or  
> offer any ideas?

Not a specific example, but you might (or might not) find some  
inspiration in Sun's web app guidelines:
<http://developers.sun.com/docs/web-app-guidelines/uispec4_0/>

The 'tree scalability' topic might be one that's of some interest:
<http://developers.sun.com/docs/web-app-guidelines/uispec4_0/05-navigation.html#5.4.3 
 >

Those guidelines (and the accompanying toolkit) were written primarily  
for sysadmin-type applications, which often have to deal with the sort  
of tasks and scalability you're talking about.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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