🎨 Design: Organization Cells impacts on other part of the product

Summary

Organization and Cells will have impacts on parts of the product beyond the organization's UI.

Spreadsheet

Impacted areas (WIP):

Your work

  • Impacts
    • Lists will be scoped to the current organization
    • Filtering/Searching will be scoped to groups/projects contained in the organization
    • Creation of items will be limited to within groups/projects contained in the organization
    • Addition of groups/projects to reporting/dashboards will be limited to groups/projects contained in the organization
    • Items impacted
      • Projects
      • Groups
      • Issues
      • Merge requests
      • To-Do List ❓ Confirm this will be per org
      • Milestones
      • Snippets ❓ These are user snippets, are they impacted
      • Activity ❓ Confirm this will be per org
      • Workspaces
      • Environments Dashboard
      • Operations Dashboard
      • Security dashboard
      • Vulnerability report
  • User workarounds
    • To view items within Your work from other organizations users will need to switch orgs
    • Users can navigate to groups/projects via the explore link
  • Mitigation
    • TBD if determined to be needed

User profile

  • Impacts
    • Activity
    • ❓ Is activity going to be scoped to activity within the current org?
      • ❓ Will this lead to blank activity in many orgs?
      • ❓ No ability to see overall activity
    • Activity graph
    • Groups ❓ Will be scoped per or org
    • Contributed projects ❓ Will be scoped per or org
    • Starred projects ❓ Will be scoped per or org
    • Followers ❓ Will these be scoped per or org
    • Following ❓ Will these be scoped per or org
  • User workarounds
    • To view items from other orgs users will need to switch orgs
  • Mitigation

User settings

  • Impacts
    • Access tokens, GPG keys, SSH keys ❓ Any impact?
    • Notifications ❓ Will a user be able to see a full list of groups/projects or per org?
    • Usage Quotas
    • Chats ❓ Any impact?
  • User workarounds
    • To view items from other orgs users will need to switch orgs
  • Mitigation
    • TBD
  • Does this cause confusion with the user setting "Organization" on the user profile #368130

Nav

  • Impacts
    • Issues, Todo, merge request counts are scope to the current org
    • Global search becomes organization search scoped to the organization
    • New changes from in GitLab to in Organization
      • Snippets may work differently and not make sense in that category
    • Introduction of org switcher #396717 (closed)
    • Frequently Visited Projects/Groups ❓ Will these be scoped per or org
  • User workarounds
    • User has to navigate to org to see counts
    • User has to navigate to org to create new items
    • User has to perform multiple search or know org to search in
  • Mitigation
    • TBD

Issues

  • Impacts
    • Users will not be able to link items from outside the organization
  • User workarounds
    • NA
  • Mitigation
    • TBD if determined to be needed

Projects

  • Impacts
    • Transfer limited to within org ❓

Groups

  • Impacts
    • Billing moved to the organization level (when that happens)

Explore

  • Impacts
    • Determine if Explore will be impacted ❓
    • Can users explore organizations? ❓

Global search

  • Impacts
    • Will Global search will be need additional context ❓
Edited by Mike Nichols