[Contrib: Evaluation System] Import/export of ItemGroup objects?

[Richard C. Moyer II]

Jim and all,

	Are the updated proposed specs on the evalsys confluence page - http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/Hw-tAw ?

	Can I update this to include missing fields?


	I don't believe that the EID field is needed in ItemGroup, it appears that the link between Item and ItemGroup is ITEM.IG_ITEM_ID

	I'm interested in using ItemGroup and using the data preload as a guide, it appears that the saveItemGroup method will create the itemGroup as well as the items associated with it.  So basically isn't itemGroup an optional wrapper around some items?


	As a tangent to this topic, I like the ability to group items, but can't find a screen, producer, or function to allow the creation of itemGroups or the ability to add items to an existing one.  Should this be a future enhancement?

Thanks,
Rick


-----Original Message-----
From: evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Jim Eng
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:28 PM
To: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Contrib: Evaluation System] Import/export of ItemGroup objects?

I am working on proposed specs for import and export of various  
entities in the Evaluation System.  I have done EvalEvaluation,  
EvalScale and EvalItem.  While working on EvalItem, I came across  
EvalItemGroup, which is not supported in the work Dick Ellis has done  
to date.  It seems like import and export of EvalItemGroup would  
require definition on a string EID, which the model does not have at  
this point.  Would it make sense to add an EID, or is it unnecessary  
to import/export item group definitions?

If import/export of item groups is important to anybody and we reach  
agreement that an EID is the best way to specify links among items and  
item groups, I'd appreciate if someone to whom this matters could  
create a JIRA for adding the EID and take care of getting that done. I  
would then add in the code for the import/export when I get to that  
point.

Comments/suggestions welcome.

Thanks.

Jim
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