Currently you can see if you have editing rights here via a tooltip (see yellow highlight):
The most straightforward change here, in terms of development, would be to add the names of anyone who has editing permission to this tooltip. This is our preferred way forward, as it is very simple. It also makes it clear who has editing permission here, where the current “editable” tooltip isn’t explicit - it doesn’t really tell you “you can edit this chapter”. The current “editable” tooltip also doesn’t help an admin know who else has editing permission here, because they don’t see it (unless they also have editing permission here).
We did also have UI to make this information visible without checking the tooltip, but there wasn’t time to implement it in the initial release of Paratext 9.0.
We had competing proposals:
- Always show information about which people can edit here.
- Only show whether or not you have editing permission here.
Something along the following lines:
Green icon/dot by the Paratext icon in the tab toolbar (or green scroll group badge): You have editing permission here, no one else does.
No coloured dot (or grey scroll group badge): no one has permission to edit here.
Orange: You have editing permission here, others do too (this would be green in the proposal where we only show whether you can edit here).
Black: You do not have editing permission here, someone else does (this would be omitted from the proposal where we only show whether you can edit here).
If there was no scroll group badge visible (this happens when there’s only one scroll group in use), a coloured dot would appear in that location to indicate whether someone has editing permission here.
Green and orange are colours which can be identified by people with most CVD types. Normally we would combine shape and colour so that the different states can be determined by someone with colour vision deficiency. However there is not a lot of space in the titlebars for extra things, we don’t want to clutter them and we can’t apply shape to the scroll group badge when we colour that. The information would also be discoverable via the title bar tooltip for colour vision deficient people (tooltip not accessed only via the icon). The main drawback of the design above, which combines the scroll group badges with the colour indicating who can edit this chapter is that those two things are not linked, and the separate meanings might be difficult to interpret.
