RE: [Vif-devel] task: suspend participation

[Luthiger S. B. <ben...@id...>]

Dear Jacek

> I've created the first view for this task and commited it to
> my CVS branch (starting with JO).
Good work, I'm very satisfied.

Some remarks and considerations:

Filtering groups:
For this task, the user might be interested only in those groups he or =
she is actually participating. Therefore, the groups have to be filtered =
before they are sent to the view. You could do this using the =
JoinParticipantToGroup instead of the NestedGroup to select the groups. =
Using the former join, you're able to filter for the groups with =
MemberIDs of the actual user.

Display of information about groups:
For this task, the user might by interested only in the title and =
description of the groups he want to suspend participation. I can't =
think of a use case the user wants to suspend only for a subset of =
groups he's participating. Therefore, there's no use for checkboxes.

If you want, I can check in my changes to your branch for that you can =
see how I would implement this.

Action button:
I think the form can be improved if the action to save the data inputted =
is triggered by a click button on the form instead of the 'suspend' link =
in the menu frame. Thus, the menu frame can be reduced to two menu =
items: 'Main menu' and 'Logout'. There's no need of a back link because =
back should display the main menu.

Did you think about the next steps? The input has to be stored in the =
database. The table Participant is prepared to store the dtSuspendFrom =
and dtSuspendTo. The last step would be to add a check to the process =
that selects reviewers from the discussion group's participants.

An additional step would be to fill the actual date into the field =
'SuspendFrom' and to redisplay the stored data if the users comes back =
to this form. However, to display stored data makes sense only if the =
suspension period has not run out yet.

What do you think about these suggestions?

Thank you very much again,
Benno