[Contrib: Evaluation System] Changes to default behavior

[Jim Eng]

Hi Aaron, 

I think that may be a feature I merged to trunk a few months after lots of discussion on the list and in open conference calls for which the agenda was well-publicized.  But I'm not sure how explicit the announcements were about what the default settings would be.  So if it was done without proper announcement, I'm sorry. 

If it was my merge that changed the default behavior, I have no problem with changing it back.

Jim 


On May 3, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:

> 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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