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.

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