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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1379086

Title:
  Change the "Access permissions have changed" notification from a JS
  popup to an inline  CSS thing

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  One of the neat features we added in Mahara 1.10, was the ability to
  drag & drop pages into a collection.

  However, we also added a Javascript popup that comes up with each
  dragged page, if the permissions for the page will change now that
  it's in the collection.

  Example:

  1. Create Page 1 & Page 2
  2. Put Page 1 into Collection A
  3. Set Collection A to be visible to the public
  4. Drag Page 2 into Collection A

  With all due respect, this notification is pretty annoying, and it
  kinda cancels out all the added utility that we got from implementing
  drag-and-drop, because often you have to click it after every single
  added page. (It also hurts our "number of clicks to get things done"
  metric.) And in Firefox if a page gives you JS pop-ups more than a few
  times, Firefox itself adds a tickbox to let you ignore further pop-
  ups, which I'm betting will confuse users and make them think their
  site is broken somehow.

  If we must have a message telling users that the pages' permissions
  have changed, let's do it as an inline notice like the one you see on
  the Content -> Files page after you upload a file and it says "Upload
  of ___ complete". It shouldn't be green like that one, or red like an
  error notice. Perhaps the yellow "warning" styling that we use on the
  Admin Home page for site config warnings would be appropriate.

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