Archive for September, 2010

Is this thing on?

20 Sep 2010
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Since we released the LUMP sandbox on to an unsuspecting and innocent world a week or two ago, we’ve noticed that quite a few people have been playing with it.  Which is great – its just what we hoped folk would do.  Have a footle, take it for a spin round the block, kick the tyres, etc, etc.

However there’s been a resounding silence in the feedback front.  Either this means that:

  • folk are so awestruck by its ground breaking novelty that they don’t know what to say,
  • or it just works so nobody has any bug reports or enhancement suggestions,
  • or is so shoddy nobody thinks its worth bothering with,
  • or we released it at a really stoopid time when most University support stafff are (like us) preparing for the onslaught of the hoards.

If anyone who has played with the sandbox does have any feedback we’d love to hear it… even if its just ‘meh’… 🙂

Infrastructure for usergroup management

20 Sep 2010
by in LUMP

I’ve been doing a bit of backend infrastructure creation on LUMP today – a set of seven CGI scripts to help with managing usergroup memberships.  These are:

  • Usergroups4SU – provide a list of usergroups that are involved in ACLs for a given structural unit.
  • Members4Usergroup – provide a list of users that a members of a given usergroup.
  • UserGroupMembership – provide a list of usergroups that a user is a member of.
  • Editing/AddUser2Usergroup – add a user to a given usergroup.
  • Editing/RemoveUserFromUsergroup – remove a user from a given usergroup.
  • Editing/AddUsergroup – create a new usergroup.
  • Editing/RemoveUsergroup – remove an empty usergroup (ie one with no members).

Jason is going to take these in the next week and see if they are sufficient to allow CLUMP to provide a nice graphical interface for staff, librarians and administrators to add and remove users from user groups.  We’ve already got the Editing/EditACLs API CGI script though, so Jason can already tinker with the ability of usergroups to view and/or edit structural units.  We might find that we need some other API calls for admin usage, but this little lots should give us quite a bit of functionality.

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