Thanks @cifvts,
Excellent questions and thoughts, to speak to each individually:
- Admin Console setup
The thinking was once you installed Mattermost we’d:
a) present screens for an IT admin to setup database and email settings (identical UI to SITE SETUP tabs at the bottom of the Admin Console).
b) next, you’d get screens to select an admin console URL, username and email and end up in an Admin Console with the tab shown in the image at the top of this thread. In the background, we’d actually create an “Admin Console” team, but instead of the regular UI, we’d have the Admin Console UI
c) We’d have a tutorial prompt to setup your first team–from the “+” sign next to TEAM SETTINGS, and then that new team would appear where “SpinPunch Games” is shown in the above image.
d) From here the IT Admin could manage any team in the system and also change global settings, add other admins, etc.
- TEAM SETTINGS
IT Admins in the Admin Console will manage TEAM SETTINGS by opening a team from the “306 more teams…” link, which opens a dialog where teams can be searched and selected, then changing settings and closing the team with the “x” button. We’re thinking about scaling from small groups to enterprise with the “306” number,
For “Team Admins” who are the end users in charge of managing a team site, we’ll replace the current “Team Settings” dialog with the ability to go to a “mini Admin Console” that’s just the TEAM SETTINGS for that team.
c) Getting to Admin Console
When a user has an email address shared across multiple teams, we automatically offer the user the ability to navigate among those teams from the main menu:
With the Admin Console, IT Admins can access it either via “http://example.com/ADMIN_CONSOLE_URL_CHOSEN” (defaults to /mm-admin if not changed on setup) or navigate to it as “Admin Console” as they would from another team.
d) For SITE REPORTS at the top
Perhaps we should call it DASHBOARD and have it collapsed on first login, so it’s just one tab on which a user starts off, and all the other admin options are available below.
Highly appreciate the feedback, it really helps us think through the design.