Open bytebilly opened 2 years ago
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cc @legrego @arisonl
@bytebilly I really like the idea of simplifying access management by emphasising our recommend roles. I was thinking of potentially taking this further and pulling them out of the combo box entirely to make them more prominent and ensure they're instantly visible. Would you have any concerns with the approach below?
I'm curious which is the approach that Cloud UI will use for roles. We probably want to be consistent across the two cc @alxchalkias
Description
We introduced
editor
andviewer
built-in roles, that are useful to provide an easy getting started experience. They can be used to grant access to your deployments to other users without grantingsuperuser
privileges or spending time to understand and craft a custom role.In the future, these roles will be even more relevant and leveraged by Elastic Cloud.
In the user management view, the Roles dropdown has some logic to group and sort existing roles. We could tweak Kibana UI to make them more visible and clearly explain what they are intended for, so that they can be even more user friendly.
Proposal
Create a new dropdown group General purpose roles (or something similar) with
editor
andviewer
entries and put it at the top of the list.If possible, these entries may have a descriptive text that will help in visibility and clarity, so users don't have to go to documentation to understand what these roles do.
Something along these lines (quick mockup to give an idea, probably you can come with better proposals 🙂):