Re: [Bodington-developers] Group email

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

I don't think you could construe this as "releasing" email addresses  
Paul. The emails are never displayed. When the tool does it's work,  
it gets them dynamically.

Alistair


On 6 Apr 2006, at 15:05, Paul Davis wrote:

> 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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> Antony Corfield
> Sent: 06 April 2006 14:50
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> Subject: [Bodington-developers] Group email
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> 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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