Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

I wonder if there should be a method in the Source interface which customizes 
things.  For example, for groups, it isn't really configured in the 
sources.xml which attributes there are, and for the search string, maybe 
someone wants in one col: group.name, group.id, group.displayName, 
group.description.  for the jdbc2 source, there is no attribute for 
lowerSearchCol, but there is a column for it, maybe it can be used somehow 
without being a subject attribute with some Java magic in the Source class.

Also, I would think the first sort/search slot should have something for 
every source as a requirement, so when you do a normal search and sort where 
the user didn't select a special sort, the results will be sorted.  i.e. for 
groups maybe ththe sort should be displayExtension or displayName.  Also the 
first slot should be public (note groups are also filtered for view 
privileges somewhere along the line).

In the case you outline, if the default sort is on the screen, and someone 
clicks to sort by last name, would group source members not show up since 
they do not have a sort value, or would they be last and unsorted a the end 
of the list?  I would think we would want them not to show up, right?

Finally, for the search col, do we have multiple columns for security or for 
ease of search.  As I mentioned on the call, I pictured it as being for 
security.  If you look at the simple membership update screen (attached), 
there is a find member of group combobox.  This is not a complex form where 
you search for attrX=val1 && attrY=val2...  Anyways, some admin users could 
search on everything about a person.  People affiliated in a certain way at 
Penn could be other attributes (i.e. in the online directory is the name of a 
student displayed in the public view of the directory the same way as it is 
to someone authenticated with the university).  Then there is the public view 
which has a different list of attributes to search on.  Just trying to keep 
the configuration, the UI, and usability simple here... :)

Thanks,
chris



-----Original Message-----
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 On Behalf Of Shilen Patel
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:47 PM
To: Grouper Dev
Subject: [grouper-dev] search and sort columns on member table

To follow up on an action item from the last call and continue the 
discussion on search/sort strings, here's a wiki page.

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Member+search+and+sort+columns

Feel free to make edits or add comments.  Let me know if there's a use 
case that will not work with this design.

Thanks!

-- Shilen

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