[Building Sakai] Patching site info to hide user IDs from students

[John Bush]

some jira's regarding this functionality:

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-10868
https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-28



On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:

> I think the common way of addressing this is by using a ContextualUserDisplayService.
>  For example, we have one that always shows the email address.
>
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/msub/rsmart.com/sakai/trunk/rsmart/providers/impl/src/main/java/com/rsmart/sakai/providers/EmailDisplayAdvisor.java
>
> You can make these behave differently for different tools, or make them
> work one way globally depending on your needs, they could look at new
> permissions like you are doing as well.
>
> We have a more complicated one that takes configuration about what tools
> to operate with and replaces the ids/names with configured user properties.
>
>
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/msub/rsmart.com/sakai/trunk/rsmart/providers/impl/src/main/java/com/rsmart/sakai/providers/UserPropertyDisplayAdvisor.java
>
> Probably if you went this route you wouldn't need to modify core Sakai at
> all.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Curtis Van-Osch <curtis.van-osch at hec.ca>wrote:
>
>> **
>> Hello,
>> Here at HEC Montréal, we're working on upgrading our system from Sakai
>> 2.8.1 to Sakai 2.9.1.  We're taking this opportunity to try and eliminate
>> as many of our source code modifications as we can, to facilitate future
>> upgrades.  Unfortunately we have many patches to the code that are a little
>> hacky.  We're in the process of deciding which are really important to us,
>> and look forward to cleaning them up and contributing them back upstream to
>> the community.
>>
>> For example, the first that I'm working on now is a patch that would
>> allow us to hide the user ids from students in the Site Info roster list.
>> Our solution has been to create a new permission called
>> 'site.viewRoster.displayId' to be applied to certain roles.  I'd be happy
>> to create an issue in Jira and attach a patch if there would be any
>> interest in including it in a future version (once I'm done merging and
>> testing it, of course).
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your feedback!
>> --
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>>  Curtis Van Osch
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