[Contrib: Evaluation System] Proposed changes to make hierarchy more useable

[Nicola Monat-Jacobs]

Thanks Aaron. It looks like EVALSYS-1146 did actually need a patch also. If
you have a sec to review it, that would be awesome.

Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>wrote:

> Sounds good to me.
> It does circumvent some possible security but I think that is probably OK.
> -AZ
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Nicola Monat-Jacobs
> <nicola at longsight.com> wrote:
> > There are two outstanding issues with the hierarchy interface that I want
> to
> > run by everyone.
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-967
> > This has been an annoyance for a while - it means that you can only
> assign a
> > course site (or 'evalgroup' as it is in know in evalsys) to a position in
> > the hierarchy if the 'admin' user is enrolled in that course site. This
> > means that admin has to be enrolled in all your course sites if you want
> to
> > use hierarchy.
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/EVALSYS-1146
> > Additionally, if you are successful in assigning your nodes through some
> > other means, those assignments won't always show in the GUI to the
> current
> > user (confusing! user wants to be sure eval will go to the courses they
> > think it will). Even if we just swapped admin for currentUser (to address
> > EVALSYS-967 above) the assigned courses won't show if the current user
> isn't
> > enrolled in them.
> > So, the proposed solution for EVALSYS-967 addresses both these solutions.
> > Instead of looking up all the sites 'admin' is enrolled in, and then
> finding
> > out which of those are or are not assigned to this node, we go
> > a conceptually simpler route.
> > The proposed patch looks up and shows the sites currently assigned to
> this
> > node (regardless of if the current user, or admin, is enrolled in them).
> > Then, it looks up and shows the courses that the current user (not admin)
> is
> > enrolled in and offers those up to be added to the current node.
> > A more robust solution would allow the user to have some sort of lookup
> > interface that would allow them to search for any course in the system,
> but
> > I think this is a good interim measure to allow folks to actually use
> this
> > feature.
> > Thoughts?
> > - Nicola
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