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[Marie Huynh <>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Benn Oshrin 
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 wrote:
> On 11/15/11 8:53 PM, Marie Huynh wrote:
>>>
>>> - edu_person_affiliation can be multi-valued, but data model doesn't
>>> allow this.
>>> - org_people:edu_person_affiliation and co_people:e_p_a should probably
>>> become org_people:affiliation co_people:affiliation
>>
>> edu_person_affiliation is in cm_co_person_roles and cm_org_identities,
>> both as varchar(32).  According to the link in the definition, the
>> permissible values are:
>>
>> faculty, student, staff, alum, member, affiliate, employee,
>> library-walk-in
>>
>> I propose we treat this in the same way as the multiple checkboxes for
>> demographics(CO-94).
>
> I forget, what did we say on that? Make the field VARCHAR(n)?

Scott was looking into how CakePHP would render a multiple checkbox field.
https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/CO-94?focusedCommentId=15986&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15986

>
>>> - affiliation field should be customizable
>>
>> How so?  During setup via enum?  As part of the enrollment config so
>> it can be done via the UI?
>
> Open for discussion. It could just become an Extended Attribute that gets
> tied to an Enum (not currently supported).

Not currently supported by us or cake?

>
> -Benn-
>