CUNY Academic Commons

BP Better Directories (the AJAX filters on the left hand side of the directory) has been updated to reflect the new profiles: https://github.com/castiron/cac/commit/68223fbfe703efaa4af32c2f7d90677e261b5c3b

Chris, question for you. The Member Directory currently shows "College" and "Title" under each user. How should this be updated in the new system? Should we instead show a list of positions? Should we show "College" and "Title" for the first position in the list? What about users who haven't entered Positions yet - just continue to display as we currently do?

Filtering by Positions fields is now in place.

Because other profile fields already use xprofile as their storage mechanism, no further mods are needed for them to be included in search.

Leaving this ticket open for feedback from Chris on http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/2467#note-1

Sorry I didn't get back to you on this earlier. What to show in the listing is a tricky one as we will be going through a transition period and I don't think there is any good programmatic way to make the switch. People will just have to create new positions. Here are my thoughts for now, perhaps too complex? We can also talk about it in the monthly meeting.

1. Check to see if there is at least one position

2a. If there is at least one position then list it. We could just concatenate the fields with of and at in between:
Position: Title of Department at College.
you can add a semicolon to string multiple ones.
Positions: Associate Professor of English at City Tech; Director of Awesome at CUNY Grad Center
there could also be a check for multiple positions so as to use Position or Positions as the heading.

2b. If there are not positions then show the old College and Title as is currently done.

Question:for new members are we removing the option to list College and Title so they have to use the Positions?

If we do something like this dual display solution we should probably think about notifying people who add a position that it will be what shows up in searches. We may also want to put a note by the College and title fields that they are not editable anymore and recommend using positions. Those concerns are worthy of a separate ticket.

Thanks, Chris. I think that the conditional strategy you suggest is pretty good. I have a feeling that the "of"/"at" trick is not going to be grammatical with some user-entered fields, so maybe we could opt for commas instead. It should be clear enough.

Question:for new members are we removing the option to list College and Title so they have to use the Positions?

Yes.

We may also want to put a note by the College and title fields that they are not editable anymore and recommend using positions

Already implemented.

Great. Yes, agree that we should use commas instead of of/at. It will work better with those not in traditional academic departments and who enter non-standard text in those fields. so..
Title, Department, College

Positions: Associate Professor, English, City Tech; Director, Awesome, CUNY Grad Center