Re: Permission and usergroup changes failing silently

Posted by DavidJCobb on Jan 07, 2012; 4:30am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Permission-and-usergroup-changes-failing-silently-tp7157335p7160923.html

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

About your portfolio feature, it is amazing. One possible simplification is to use the ID of the user in the name of the permission (e.g., portfolio42356). Since users cannot change that ID, you wouldn't have to worry about changes to the user name. The name of the permission would be safe. The drawback is that you would have to find the ID of a given user before manually changing his/her permission for some reason (e.g., not an active user anymore, etc.).

Glad you like it! :)

I did consider naming the groups based on IDs like you've suggested. I'm not sure if my "boss" GodlyPerfection would prefer that over human-readable group names -- he managed portfolios manually prior to all my NAML stuff, so I don't know if he'd prefer to be able to easily change settings by hand -- but seeing as I only propagate changes to the public site on his approval, I should be able to change the system easily if he gives the okay, without having to worry about backward-compatibility or anything.

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

So soon we will get back to you with an explanation for the problem you described. If you have new questions, comments or concerns, please let us know. We want as much feedback as you can provide.

Thanks for looking into it. :) Once I get the portfolio system to a stable state, I'll try to remember to post a thread for some things I've noticed and thought of during development.