"My Apps" / Dashboard UX Tailoring - Apps Category?

[uwcrbc]

I have seen few posts here and there getting close to the request/idea below (sorting apps and such), but I have not found one with identical purpose.
Apologies in advance if this ends up being a duplicate.

This is, as far as I can tell, a pure UX request:

I regularly find the need to get "my apps" categorized (sub-categorize), for myself or my users. Here as an example:

it could be done with the introduction of an admin defined single "category" (for example below the tag field for each app):

Or alternatively, admin could set single tags to be "displayed as dashboard category" or something along these lines.

Should a given user not have access to any app for a given category / tag, then the dashboard category would simply not show

I guess that this also suppose a way to manage categories (creation / deletion) or tags, outside of each app, as a general setting as well as a default category for each app.

Hopefully this makes sense.

[jdaviescoates]

I use the existing Groups feature to achieve something very similar.

So members of Better Media are put in the better-media group, and then for all the apps I want them to see/ have access to I edit the app setting so give that group access/ visibility. As an admin I can filter by that group, but those users only see those apps.

[uwcrbc]

@jdaviescoates Indeed I am too, already using the groups to set visibility access to given set of apps for given users.

However, this only impact the "visibility" of an app on the dashboard, as far as I know. Not the segmentation of already visible/accessible apps.

The above feature request would have noting to do with access right to an app and everything to do with dashboard customization.

So this is not quite the same as what we are trying to do. That is to say, bring more readability/meaning on the dashboard app organization for all users (less tech savvy ones) - A way of grouping apps together according to one's own need/meaning.

Unless I am misunderstanding you, in which case apologies in advance!

[nebulon]

@uwcrbc we actually had considered pretty much the same design for next release, however dismissed it again, since we don't really have real world use-cases for this on our side. So maybe you could share yours so we can better understand it for implementation.

[uwcrbc]

@nebulon Sure - let's say for example that you have different apps for different department/teams in your company and a user can be part of multiple teams/departments.

So for example:
One group/category of apps is common to all users.
One group/category of apps cater to teachers only
One group/category of apps cater to students and teachers.

A applicable scenario in our organization would be for example:
One group/category of apps (NodeBB; WikiJS etc..) common to all users
One group/category of apps (Invoice Ninja, Kimai etc..) for users in the Accounting department
One group/category of apps (tools such as Vaultwarden, Cal.com, LanguageTool etc..) for users with specific related needs.

Does this make sense?
It is simply an arbitrary personalisation, not at the individual level, but at the company/provider level.

Let me know if it doesn't or does not seem intelligible.

Many thanks,