Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Peter DiCamillo <>]

We're upgrading to Grouper 2.1.1, and I'm trying to improve how we
display subjects in the Grouper UI. Ideally, I'd like to display either:
  lastname, firstname     or
  lastname, firstname (internal_id)
The internal id is confidential, but very convenient for privileged
staff who are allowed to access it. Grouper would include the internal 
id in subject displays when a session's subject is privileged.

I tried to do this by defining a new attribute for subjects, and 
specifying it for the source's subject.display attribute in 
media.properies. First I tried to add the attribute to subjects using an 
override for decorateSubjects. However, I never saw decorateSubjects 
being called for subject display. After that, I tried overriding 
filterSubjects, and adding the attribute to the subjects' attribute 
maps. That worked for search results, but didn't work for group 
membership results. Finally, while still using filterSubjects, I tried 
defining a virtual attribute from the added attribute, and that didn't 
work at all.

Is there a way to do what I want to do, or is it to too ambitious? The 
new video regarding this topic was very helpful, and gave me the idea 
this might be possible. Even if it isn't, I'm impressed by what clearly 
is possible now.

Peter