Talk:Roles and permissions

Development:Roles [[1]] shows 8 possible contexts in order of granularity. It appears that Personal and User come after System just before Course Category. I think what is needed here is a pictorial diagram similar to the Metacourses [[2]] diagram. Perhaps even a Venn-like diagram [3] for Contexts, Roles, Capabilities, Permissions, Groups. This is not an easy concept to put into words, but a picture is worth 1000 words (in English, maybe more in another language.)

Context Hierarchy Diagram for 1.7

A diagram like this perhaps?

(.psd available)

Martin Dougiamas 19:27, 14 February 2007 (CST): Actually it's more like this in 1.8 (can someone draw a diagram?):

----------------------------------SYSTEM-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------CATEGORIES----------------------      ------SITE COURSE (FRONT PAGE)------     --------PERSONAL----------   -----USER------
---------NORMAL COURSES---------------      -----ACTIVITIES----   -----BLOCKS---
-----ACTIVITIES----   -----BLOCKS-----