I'm OK with it. --Tom
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Douglas Cerna <[email protected]> wrote: > My idea to fulfill the Enrollment States user story > (http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AXUw5wdlJ-oLYWZtYzU3azltMzZjXzEyN2N0NXJnZGNo&hl=en) > is influenced by the way CanDo handles course/section association of > competencies, and by the way SchoolTool handles members and instructors in > sections, and how sections are related to courses. I'm talking about > RelationshipProperties. > > I like how easy is to say section.members.add(person) or how safe is to blow > the whole CanDo competencies container get your courses/sections not having > anything associated anymore. We also have adapters like IInstructor/ILearner > to get from the teacher/student to their sections. > > We could add a container to the ISchoolToolApplication object: > > app['schooltool.enrollment_states'] > > which would contain IEnrollmentState objects. These objects would provide: > > - id (TextLine) > - title (TextLine) > - description (Text) > - members (RelationshipProperty) > > Maybe we could add two marker interfaces to distinguish "basic" and > "extended" states: IBasicEnrollmentState(IEnrollmentState) and > IExtendedEnrollmentState(IEnrollmentState) instead of a "type" attribute. > > And the proposal says that basic states can be hardcoded, so I'm thinking we > could add them on initialization (or startup or evolution) and not let the > user to modify them, delete them or add more basic states. > > The user would be able to add/modify/delete extended states. > > An evolution script would be necessary to add all existing students to the > 'enrolled' basic state. > > And I know that the student just needs ONE basic state and ONE optional > extended state, and that RelationshipProperties can handle multiple values. > But I take as an example the way sections relate to courses. Even though in > the data model it's possible to have multiple courses for a section, the user > interface doesn't allow the user to do it. > > Let me know what you think. > > Douglas > > "... allí es cuando te das cuenta que las cosas malas pueden resultar > bastante buenas..." - Lionel Messi > > Por favor, evite enviarme adjuntos de Word, Excel o PowerPoint. > Vea http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
