[Contrib: Evaluation System] Changes to default behavior

Aaron Zeckoski azeckoski at unicon.net
Mon May 3 02:07:46 PDT 2010


I noticed that someone changed the default behavior of the evaluation
app (not naming names here). I think it would be better in the future
to not do that without at least sending a note out to the list first.
For now, I am planning to change the default behavior back to the way
it was.

In particular, I am referring to these 2 options in the admin config:
Show links to My Evaluations, My Templates, My Items, My Scales and My
Email Templates
Show the "Evaluations I am creating or administering" box
(Administrator widget) on the main screen

By default these are now both turned off which means a user who
downloads the tool and tries to use it will likely be confused that
they don't have the ability to access their evaluations through the
UI. This was also setup so the super admin is affected by these
settings as well which is inconsistent with the way most of the
permission based settings in the tool work (i.e. typically the super
admin is allowed to do anything even if the permissions and settings
do not allow it).

Please let me know if you disagree with changing this back to the way
it used to work but I would need a really good argument to convince me
that removing this by default is a good idea (especially for new
users).

-AZ


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Aaron Zeckoski - Software Engineer - http://tinyurl.com/azprofile


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