CUNY Academic Commons

This is a pretty big job, as it will involve doing some gutting of the way profile fields work. Proposing we boot until 1.4.

Thanks, Boone.

Ray, I'm leaving this assigned to me, though you're welcome to it if it sounds fun to you.

Here's the status of this ticket.

I spent some time this afternoon exploring the possibility of a BP patch. I ran into a couple problems. First, I was pretty unsure about how to make the admin UI make sense. Second, and more importantly, BP's xprofile code is really convoluted, and making this kind of change would require extensive rewrites to the core code, to ensure proper scalability.

So I went a different route and wrote it as a plugin, which is pretty rough around the edges, but works. When you are editing a profile field in the Network Admin, you'll see an option to enable an "Other Field". When set to 'Yes', users editing their profile will have an option at the end of their list:

[ ] Other [textbox]

Note that, at the moment, this only works for checkboxes. I can add radio button support in the future if you need it.

The changes are on cdev, where I have also gone ahead and modified the Role field appropriately. Please have a look and let me know whether you think this is workable for now. Thanks.

Fantastic!

Just one thing: on my cdev profile, I had faculty and administrator. I used this new feature to add "pizza lover." When it appeared on my profile, I clicked on the link, which leads to a search of the commons for members with that phrase in their profile field. But no results came up. Will that be the case for all customized labels?

Not a big deal, but maybe something to look into. Otherwise, this looks great and is ready to go.

Will that be the case for all customized labels?

They will all link to a search. The search will only turn up empty if, in fact, no one else has listed that phrase anywhere in their profiles. What's your desired behavior?

What's your desired behavior?

My expectation was that my profile would have shown up in that search.

Fantastic -- thanks, Boone. Please let me know whether we should include a cauldron, mandrake root, snake venom, and frogs in our next OTPS request.

I know where we can get some primo eye of newt. Can you start the sole source justification?

On it.