RE: [Bodington-developers] Group email

[Paul D. <pau...@ou...>]

Have you looked at the DPA implications of this?  You are effectively
releasing email addresses without asking user permissions.  Some of our
groups could run to a couple of hundred people or more

Paul

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From: bod...@li...
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Antony Corfield
Sent: 06 April 2006 14:50
To: bod...@li...
Subject: [Bodington-developers] Group email

Naomi has been working on functionality to allow users to email all 
(and individual) members of groups that they belong to. The list of 
groups is found by the following select statement:

Group.findGroups("name like '" +  zonePrefix + ".%' and group_id in 
(select group_id from members where user_id=" + 
user.getUserId().intValue() + ")");

at uhi e.g. students and staff are in the 'uhi' zone so this will 
ignore bodington default groups (allusers, allstaff... etc.) and 
localgroup.owners/adhoc. This is pretty general so could I guess go 
into head. Have a look at http://www.dev.clan.uhi.ac.uk/site/ - login 
uhistdnt3/uhistdnt3.

The tricky bit is presenting groups in a logical way. E.g. we have 
uhi.uh.upel70309.staff and uhi.uh.upel70309.students 
(zone.faculty.module.*) so we have some String searching to find the 
corresponding group name depending whether the user is staff or student 
and presenting the user with the option of selecting staff or student 
for a given group. This wouldn't be so easy to generalise but could 
possibly be done with a regx set in template or bodington.properties - 
depends of course on how an institution names groups and if this is 
consistent. However, it's not essential and all groups could just be 
presented with full description.

Any interest in this functionality out there? Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Antony

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Antony Corfield, UHI
e-Frameworks developer



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