Grouper Developers Forum

["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

--On 11 June 2009 14:59 -0500 Tom Zeller 
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 wrote:

> Could all lists behave the same as "members" ?
>
>
> At first I assumed that all lists behaved the same way and that the
> "members" list was merely a built-in default. I was surprised to find
> that wasn't the case. 
I know a definite decision was made not to allow composites of custom lists 
- though you can add a composite group to a custom list.

I think there would be benefit in being able to use custom lists in the 
same way as member lists - reduced number of groups and easier to treat 
lists as roles - though as Chris says we'd have to figure out how we go 
about referencing lists.

Gary
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Chris Hyzer 
> <>
> wrote:
>
> Ok, thinking about concatenating things, its now for me to make a feature
> request and get rejected... :)
>
> I think one of the reasons that "lists" in groups are not used very much
> is that they are not reusable.  If you have a group called
> classes:english110, and there are three lists: members, assistants,
> profs, then the only one of those lists you can add to another group is
> the members list.  Of course you could make three groups, and add those
> to the three lists, but that defeats the purpose of the 3-way assignment
> (so you don't have to create that many objects).
>
> Should we consider adding the ability to add a list to another list?
>  E.g. add the classes:english110 profs list to the classes:english120
> profs list?
>
> I think one of the issues is the way we represent groups as subjects.
>  Right now we just have a subject source which looks at the groups table
> and uses the groupId as the subjectId.  We would need to some how
> concatenate the groupId and the list name for the subjectId, or keep
> another table of group lists with uuids (is this in the groupSet table
> perhaps???), or something...  anyways, if there isn't an easy way to do
> this, and/or there is little interest, we can put this on the long term
> wishlist... :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing