[Sigia-l] content channels

[Beau Lebens]

I would suggest perhaps (hard to say without knowing what sort of
content/options etc) that you could do something like 'disable' the options,
gray them out so that people can still see them, but they aren't
'actionable'.

This is a relatively standard practise (i.e. on a Windows machine, when menu
options are disabled for whatever reason).

Depends on how hard you want to push people - whether you want to gray them
out to make it a 'there but not in your face' message, or you might choose
to actually highlight them (orange background or something) as a 'ha ha -
you can't have this until you register' type of message.

as usual... it depends :)

Beau

//  -----Original Message-----
//  From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
//  Gothelf, Jeff
//  Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2003 11:09 PM
//  To: Beau Lebens; Listera; sigia-l at asis.org
//  Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] content channels
//
//
//  The main reason I could think of to actually show some
//  non-accessible content would be to promote registration with
//  the site. Not knowing Ken's company's business objectives, it's
//  hard to tell if this is relevant. But the practice of "teasing"
//  the users into seeing what they can have IF they register would
//  be a viable one if the business warranted it.
//
//  [Jeff]
//
//  -----Original Message-----
//  From: Beau Lebens [mailto:beau at dentedreality.com.au]
//  Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:05 AM
//  To: Listera; sigia-l at asis.org
//  Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] content channels
//
//
//  This was going to be my question; why show it to them in the
//  first place.
//
//  I used a multi-level security system in a web application I developed
//  (actually controlled using none->read->write->full level,
//  across about 16
//  different zones within the app), and basically if you didn't
//  have some sort
//  of access (i.e. u had 'none') then you didn't see it. There were also
//  elements such as creating new items that were removed if you didn't have
//  'write' access etc.
//
//  It works nicely and means that users who don't have access to something
//  don't get frustrated when they can't click on a link or can't perform an
//  operation, since they don't know what they are missing out on :)
//
//  HTH
//
//  Beau
//
//  //  -----Original Message-----
//  //  From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org
//  [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
//  //  Listera
//  //  Sent: Thursday, 30 January 2003 6:27 AM
//  //  To: sigia-l at asis.org
//  //  Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] content channels
//  //
//  //
//  //  "Ken Bryson" wrote:
//  //
//  //  > My question is, has anyone worked on something like this, or
//  //  seen something
//  //  > like it where the user is clearly and effectively shown
//  what they have
//  //  > access to at any given time.
//  //
//  //  If the site is already access-regulated, why is a
//  particular user seeing
//  //  stuff that he can't access?  Is there a marketing reason why
//  //  the user needs
//  //  to see what he can't get?
//  //
//  //  Best,
//  //
//  //  Ziya
//  //
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