[LON-CAPA-dev] Roles sort order

Gerd Kortemeyer lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:25:31 -0500


With this way of ordering, it would be nice to chop up the table a bit 
whenever the realm changes, and generate a separating header line.

On Nov 8, 2003, at 7:14 AM, Guy Albertelli II wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have commited a change that modifies the order that roles sort
> somewhat.
> It is fairly tweakable so let me know what you think of this.
>
> The order now is
>
> - any Author role
> - all co-Author roles sorted by username of co-author
> - all Course roles sorted first by Course Name then by the rol in the
>    course  (Meaning if in course "Test" you are CC/IN/ST, and in course
>             "Real" you are TA/ST you'd see-
>          Student             --- Real
>          Teaching Assistant  --- Real
>          Course Coordinator  --- Test
>          Instructor          --- Test
>          Student             --- Test
> - All Domain wide roles, first sorted by Role then by domain
>
>
> I did this because sorting courses by internal Id number was silly.
>
> I also thought that i might be better to sort the student role for a
> course to be near the Course Coordinator role for a course (reduce
> mousing distance to switch between test roles in a course)
>
> If you wat I can easily revert back to sorting by role first and then
> 'Extent'.
>
> If you like this, then I will also do this to the role display in
> User Roles Modify screen.
>
> -- 
> guy@albertelli.com  LON-CAPA Developer  0-7-5-3-
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