[Tiki-devel] Admin UI friendliness

Hi all,

I have stumbled upon this before as well but new Tiki users find it 
really hard to enable advanced settings when they are completely unaware 
of the fact that we hide them by default in Admin UI. Here's a recent 
example I had with someone new to TIki trying to enable the API:


There is no clue that they need to enable advanced preferences in the 
small filter dropdown at the top left. Can we think of a more 
user-friendly way to convey this filtering options? I personally have 
searched for a setting for a few times while using Tiki and I am not 
even new to Tiki. Can you think of any good ideas to make this more user 
friendly? Improving the message on this page won't solve the issue as we 
have many such places in Tiki admin where settings are hidden and 
someone might be looking for them.

Maybe a one-time warning message at the top that some preferences are 
hidden and they need to allow the corresponding filters to see? If they 
close the message, it shouldn't show again to stop bothering user.

Regards,
Victor

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