[Building Sakai] !user.template - how does it work?

[Matthew Buckett]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Stephen Marquard
<stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za> wrote:
> The !user.template.XXX realms works on account types (XXX = account type),
> and is always consulted in realm lookups. It’s rarely used, but we use it
> for example to allow staff but not students to view official profile photos
> (with the permission roster.viewofficialphoto).

It doesn't get consulted on lookups for ContentHostingService I
believe, although it does get consulted on lookups for the site
service.

My guess is that it provided an elegant solution for allowing all
users of type staff to create new sites but preventing users of type
student todo so.

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  Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer, IT Services, University of Oxford