[Contrib: Evaluation System] share templates jira EVALSYS-1006

[Aaron Zeckoski]

This was definitely one of the goals of the hierarchy and just has not
happened because of a lack of resources more than inability to fit
into the architecture.

-AZ


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Stephen Marquard
<stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za> wrote:
> What would be useful for us is to have templates be visible to particular levels in a hierarchy of Faculty > Department > User, as we have for example templates specific to the Law Faculty that we don't necessarily want to be globally visible.
>
> I'm not sure the evals hierarchy is geared to that sort of use though, and how we'd associate users with a level in the hierarchy.
>
> Regards
> Stephen
>
>>>> Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> 8/25/2010 4:10 PM >>>
> This is a pretty fundamental design switch in the way the tool works.
> Evals is user centric and you are trying to force it to be site
> centered instead. I understand that is how many tools in Sakai are
> made but it is not fundamentally how this one is. I think this change
> will end up adding a huge amount of complexity as it is a major shift
> in the permissions model so it really needs to be approved by all the
> schools in production before it goes into the tool trunk (you are
> welcome to make this change locally of course without waiting for
> anyone else).
>
> The suggestion to setup sharing with other users is much more inline
> with the user centric way the tool currently works and is probably a
> better way to handle things (IMO).
>
> I think you probably would need to extend this to include items and
> scales to avoid confusing the users. If you don't it should be ok
> assuming the items/scales are made public somehow.
>
> -AZ
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Adam Marshall
> <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I have just created Jira pertaining to the sharing of questionnaire templates:           http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-1006
>>
>> We are very keen to do this so I just wanted to open up discussion of the best way forward. We also want to share results butthis will be a separate issue.
>>
>> Here's the text of the Jira:
>>
>> =======
>>
>> Templates should be either private, public or assigned to a site.
>>
>> There should be no change in the area of private and public templates but there should be an additional option to assign a template to ONE site.
>>
>> Site participants with the 'eval.write.template' permission should be allowed to edit.
>>
>> Locking would be ideal but if that is too complex then a red warning message pointing out that somebody else is editing the template would do. The message could contain the time at which editing started.
>>
>> There may be issues with templates that use My Scales as these will not necc. be visible to all permitted editors
>>
>> Related to: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-712
>>
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-712 also comes into play - currently non-admins dont see My Scales but I think that the intention is that they should.
>>
>> =======
>>
>> Comments? (I will try to distill all comments and add to the Jira but feel free to comment on the ticket anyway)
>>
>> adam
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