[Contrib: Evaluation System] Changes to default behavior

[Jim Eng]

Meant to say it was merged *a few months ago* ...

On May 3, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Jim Eng wrote:

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