#8 Display Student names instead of IDs

[fRiSi]

A group's base_view lists all the IDs of students
referenced by that group. It would be much better to
display fullname instead of the username.
Two ways to do that:
- either write a custom base_view
- or it may be better to use a more advanced reference
field

[Thomas Geiger]

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i think this feature could be needed at several places, so
we should discuss how to provide a generic solution

[fRiSi]

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don't you think that using a more advanced reference fields
already is generic?
please have a look at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.archetypes.devel/3628/match=danny+reference
maybe this widget is not what we are searching for, but at
least it's a start

i think the need for customizing references which
information on the referenced object is presented is so big
that there has to be a solution already.

maybe its a good idea to ask on #archetypes

[Thomas Geiger]

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Archetype References provide a listing that does
title_or_id. So if you would like to have the username
displayed, the easiest way would be to fill it into the
title field.
The resulting problem is, how to handle the cmfmember fields
as data is getting duplicated, cmfmember now has id (used as
user id), title (displayname in ref widgets) and fullname
(used for metadata). I'd suggest to make fullname invisible
as we don't have any need for it.

[fRiSi]

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i think writing fillname to title and don't use fullnamen
anymore will work for our purposes, but it's kinda hack.
i'd prefer to use title for storing the name in the title
field but leave fullname as a computed field as well (or
even better: set the getter and setter methods to those of
the title)
in addition it would still be cool to find out if there is a
more advanced/confiugrable referencewidget around

[Thomas Geiger]

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we're gonna present a proposal to the cmfmember-team howto
exploit the right widgets with the right labels

[Thomas Geiger]

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okay - it seems we have to wait for the cmfmember guys.
frisi please post a bug if needed ;)
meanwhile I've changed import to populate title with
fullname, too. so people get displayed in a nice way. ->
setting priority to 6