Feature request/Idea : show dataverse collections and groups associated to user roles in admin dashboard?

[tjouneau]

Hi,
I hope this is not duplicating an existing ticket.
Currently the Users dashboard displays the following fields :
ID | Username | Name | Email | Affiliation | Authentication | Roles | Superuser (Y/N)

A user's roles and groups can be different from one Dataverse collection to another. In the following example "Dataset Creator" and "Member" do not apply to the same collections :

it would be nice to display :
1/ the name of the collection near the roles.
2/ The group(s) to which the user belongs.

In order to not uselessly complexify the dashboard, it could be done for ex. like this : Dataset creator (dataverse_collection_1, group), Member (dataverse_collection2, group)... ?
OR (maybe preferable)
make these informations available through the "List Users" function in the API, which also does not display this information?

Main use case :

• facilitate user management for the superadmin.
• facilitate reports on the current usage of the Dataverse instance.

I hope it is clear, not redundant and relevant enough.
Thanks in advance for your time.
Thomas

[djbrooke]

Thanks @tjouneau for the details. I think a general expansion of the dashboard functionality would be nice for the future. In the #7629 pull request for the 5.4 release we're adding a new "add user traces" API that shows much of this information in an API response. When we're able to revisit this in the UI we can perhaps make use of that API to more easily retrieve this information.

[pdurbin]

@tjouneau out of curiosity, would an API help? Danny already mentioned the new-ish show user traces API (which should already show if the user is a creator of a dataset or collection, by the way) but perhaps an even more robust API could be build that shows additional information you're interested in such as group membership and associated datasets and collections. Sometimes we like building APIs first before we build the UI.