[Building Sakai] Custom profile fields

Sun Jan 20 14:59:40 PST 2013

Hi Andrei,

Apologies for the late response, I have been away.

To implement this I suggest the following:

1. Refactor Profile persistence via SakaiPerson and SAKAI_PERSON_T to use a new database table, storing data in a format like an RDF triple:
USER_ID, FIELD,VALUE

ie
abc123-123abc, nickname, steve
abc123-123abc, favourite_books, "some book"

You could normalise the 'field' further with an additional table that stores the field names and a number, ie:

FIELD_ID, FIELD_NAME
1, nickname
2, favourite_books

The the first table would be:

abc123-123abc, 1, steve
abc123-123abc, 2, "some book"

2. Implement some sort of way for users to specify what fields are to be shown on the profile page. This could just be sakai.properties

3. Implement a way to group the profile fields into sections like they are currently hardcoded. That could also be sakai.properties

Maybe it could be like this:

profile.fields.group.count=3
profile.fields.group.1=nickname,date_of_birth,other_info
profile.fields.group.2=favourite_books, favourite_movies
profile.fields.group.3=roum_number,building,phone_number,fax_number

4. The field names in the database would then map to a properties file so that the values can be customised on display:
eg

some.properties

profile.field.nickname = Nickname
profile.field. favourite_books = Favourite books

I think thats about it. Will copy that into the Jira.

cheers,
Steve

On 11/01/2013, at 12:31 AM, Andrei Chirila <andrei.chirila at isdc.eu> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>  
> I’ve sent you already an email the past days but I guess you didn’t have time to check your emails yet.
> We’ve met at the Sakai conference this year in Atlanta. I was with Mark on behalf of the LOI. J
>  
> Can you please share with me your ideas about the technical approach for making configurable fields in Profile 2?
> I guess it will have impact on the backend so we need to think how much time we assume it would take our team, depending on the solution.
>  
> Looking forward to your response,
> Andrei
>  
> From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com] 
> Sent: donderdag 3 januari 2013 23:25
> To: Mark Breuker
> Cc: Adam Marshall; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Custom profile fields
>  
> Hi Mark
>  
> Yep and prfl-230.  Let me know if you need any help, I've thought all of this through, just haven't had a chance to implement yet.
>  
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 03/01/2013, at 20:17, Mark Breuker <mbreuker at loi.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hi Steve,
>  
> Are you referring to https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-390?
>  
> I will investigate if we can implement this feature.
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Mark
>  
>  
>  
> Op 3 jan. 2013, om 07:59 heeft Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
>  
> 
> Yep there is an outstanding Jira for this,  and certainly a good one to do. Basically it is just re-doing the backend for the profile info and adding some config for the fields to display. If someone wants to tackle I can walk you through what needs to be done, I estimate a weeks effort. 
>  
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 03/01/2013, at 3:42, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> We want to do the same thing. (We want to add ‘academic interests’ type fields (and maybe remove some current fields)). It would be good to be able to do this in some form of configuration file so one doesn’t have to edit the source code??
>  
> adam
>  
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Mark Breuker
> Sent: 02 January 2013 16:09
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: [Building Sakai] Custom profile fields
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> We are thinking of adding additional fields to the Profile 2 tool to better match our distance learning needs. However creating a patch that will add some fields and removes others probably won't be merged with the community code because it would be a very institution specific patch (ie not generic). Still we prefer not to create our own local fork of the tool.
>  
> Has anyone thought about ways to make the fields customizable per institution?
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Mark
>  
>  
> Mark Breuker
> Product Owner
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