Confused about iconology on Set Actor

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I guess, I am the odd one here, since I searched the forum and could not find anyone raising something similar in the past, but I will report this nonetheless.

This is in regards when actor?: true in the user resource. I use this to test if my policies work correctly, based on different users, having different roles.

I find it very confusing the fact that Authorization is ON, when the lock icon is UNLOCKED!!! And when the lock icon is LOCKED, authorization is OFF. I just don’t get! How are you supposed to read that icon?

For example, I have installed the Tunez app (to make sure policies and actions are setup correctly) along with AshAdmin (while following along the Ash Framework book) and I CAN create Artists, while logged in as a simple user (role = :user) when the icon looks like:

:locked:(locked)

(sorry, new user, cannot upload screeenshots)

and I CANNOT create an artist when the icon looks like:

:unlocked:(unlocked)

The play/pause icon seems to make no difference either.

Is there some definitive documentation how these work, or what they mean? Having popup tooltips while hovering might be illuminating too!

Thanks!

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Yeah honestly those are just not great and should be improved. It’s like the play/pause button. It shows what it will do if you click it, not what it’s doing now.

Tooltips and/or just using buttons with words would be great. As for what play/pause does in that scenario, it should be toggling the actor. When paused there is no actor, and playing there is an actor.

Please open an issue or a PR to adjust those buttons to stop using icons or to have tooltips :man_bowing:

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Opened Refactor/Improve the functionality of the Icons on the top right (Set Actor/tenant?) · Issue #349 · ash-project/ash_admin · GitHub.

Thanks for the swift reply!

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Fixed by @andyleclair here: change svg icons to words by andyleclair · Pull Request #351 · ash-project/ash_admin · GitHub