Hi Aaron, Thanks for clarifying that shortname has other potential uses.
I'd certainly vote for your suggested solution - sounds ideal to me. If #4 is more complex I'd guess that can wait - the others are more of a priority. I think changing the name is more of a nice to have than a need to have - and if it's reused elsewhere in the database it would have knock on effects so I can see why that would be more work. Cheers, 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
