Re: [phpesp-dev] [patch] new feature: invitations

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

I'll consider the patches if they are against CVS Head.  1.6 is critical
bug fix only right now and 1.7 is almost out the door.

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:02 +0100, Jochen Staerk wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> this patch (against 1.6.1) should contain my last 2 submissions 
> (show-results-on-survey-completion and hidden-multicopy-functionality) 
> and a new, bigger feature that I call invitations.
> 
> With invitations, you can invite a group to a survey. The members of the 
> group will receive an e-mail with the URL to access the survey and their 
> credentials. An important feature is that phpESP then keeps track of 
> incoming responses, i.e. one can see on the status page of the 
> respective invitation when, and more importantly if users have completed 
> the survey.
> 
> 
> A word of warning: Realms seems to be shallow in the 1.6.1 phpESP 
> architecture (has that changed to 1.7? I think there is a login-form 
> now?). It seems as if both user and realm are part of the primary key in 
> the users table, but due to http constraints, it can not be determined 
> which group a user belongs to when he/she loggs in, so de facto the user 
> name is the only primary key. One might run into trouble if there are 
> users in different groups that share the same user name.
> 
> If user "A" group "A" is invited to Survey "A" and another Username "A" 
> in group "B" is also invited to Survey "A", their participations would 
> be recorded as the identical user in both group A and B.
> 
> Maybe I'll pull a CVS version and rewrite those features for 1.8 -- I 
> think 1.7 should not be destabilized by new features as it is already a 
> release candidate.
> 
-- 
mcg
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