Enhance Sorting and Filtering in Permission Tables

1 Initial Problem

By now (v5.3.x), the tables in "Permissions" tabs of objects hardly be adjusted to the beholders needs. This is a problem particularly when there are a lot of roles of the same type (global or local ones):

• The table then becomes very wide and cannot be overlooked conveniently.
• The sort order of roles (from left to right) is only controlled by the roles' obj_ids (that is, put differently, the creation date) which do not offer a meaningful order to the beholder in many cases.

2 Conceptual Summary

There are two aspects in which this problem can be tackled:

• Like in "Administration > Roles", the "Permissions" tab of objects offers a filter field "Title".
• The sort order of roles (from left to right) can be selected by the user, according to the following criteria:
  • Alphabetical
  • Creation date (like now)

Anyway, the familiar splitting into global roles (at the left beginning of the table) and local roles (to the right) has to be preserved.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

*/perm_settings/permission_settings

3.2 User Interface Details

• The existing select menu "Role" is renamed to "Role Type". A new "Title" filter field is displayed next to it.
• A "Column Sorting" menu is displayed on top of the table, allowing to choose from the options "Creation Date" and "Alphabetical".

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

A completely new user interface aspect related to this feature request is sorting tables horizontally.

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