Hi, I'd be more than happy to see the shortname auto generated based on group name. That would then solve this for all new groups - but would it also resolve for legacy groups or would that need additional work to generate an amendment 'if group.shortname="" then group.shortname="group.name"? It would be nice if the blank fields could also be auto generated during site upgrade without admin user action - but if that isn't possible a button/link available to site administrators to 'generate missing shortnames' as part of group administration section of the admin panel would be great.
I agree that displaying the shortname to group admins is needed so that they can refer to it when making requests for changes but it makes sense that the ability to alter the name should be restricted to institution and site admins. This might seem like a daft question but I'm asking from a position of ignorance as I'm keen to learn. What is group.shortname actually needed for? Could it just be stripped out and references to it renamed to group.name instead? The only reason I can think of for having 2 separate names for these fields is to have a short character friendly name that can be used for csv import - but as Aaron pointed out it doesn't seem to have that constraint. Regards, Gordon. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contrib members https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/826649 Title: Add group shortnames to manually created groups Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Confirmed Bug description: In Mahara 1.5 groups can be created via a CSV file and associated with an institution. Often, however, groups can be created manually, but a CSV upload of the members may be preferred. Thus, it would be good if manually created groups could also have a short name (that is also displayed to the admin) so that members can be added via CSV. This wishlist item needs a bit more thinking because the CSV feature allows institution admins to create groups that are associated with their institution (though it doesn't do anything with that information yet, I think) but not on a site level. Furthermore, if groups already exist, they would need to be assigned a short name. And then who can add members as they are not associated with an institution yet? Furthermore, the CSV upload is also only beneficial if users don't change their user names. An admin must be aware of that or his upload may not work most of the time. Thus, user names should be locked. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/826649/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
