Andrei Cristian Niculae wrote: > Hello, > > I've been talking with Mircea Carasel about a JIRA issue he's been > working on - [1] - an issue about, among other things, introducing the > concept of user site location, as described in [2]. The user > site-location would represent physical location of the user. > We've been thinking of a way of expanding this concept to a more general > "site-location". > This new concept would act like a general group not just for users, but > also for devices, like phones, gateways or SBCs. The first benefit for > this is that the administrator could make settings based on site > location, settings like timezone, or NTP server, these being the > starting point of our discussion (because of [3]). > The site location would be available in a different page, let's say > under System->Site Locations. > Here, one would have the possibility to display users, phones, gateways > and SBCs from a specific location and make settings based on that > location just like with group settings. > > I'm sure that besides time-zone settings and per-user gateways there are > a lot of other things that could use from this concept. So please share > your opinions. > > This e-mail is mainly about collecting opinions whether or not we should > open a JIRA to implement this feature and the benefits this would bring. > As soon as there is an agreement upon this, I'll come back with details > about what we thought would be the first phase in implementing this. > > Regards, > Andrei
As far as I can tell everything that can be done with 'site-location' can be done with groups. So the usual questions: - do we really need a new feature - why not just add 'Site Location' panel/capability to group settings for users (and later for devices if needed). D. _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev
