RE: Bug in ganymede dev4e

["King, Curtis" <curtis.king@cul.ca>]

I would prefer to have the option to create the admin persona in the
tree and what ever admin name we want to use.  This would give us more
flexibilty and thanks for the info, it all works now.

ck

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jonathan Abbey [SMTP:jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 22, 1998 12:17 PM
> To:	King, Curtis
> Cc:	ganymede@arlut.utexas.edu
> Subject:	Re: [Ganymede] Bug in ganymede dev4e
> 
> | You can't create admin persona with the new menu.  It will not
> accept
> | any name for the new persona, so you can't create the persona.
> Also,
> 
> This is deliberate.  You won't see the 'create' option if you right
> click on
> the Admin Persona folder in the tree, and you won't see 'Admin
> Persona' as an
> object that can be created with the Create toolbar button or the
> Create Object
> Action menu.
> 
> You need to edit the user, go to the user's persona panel, and click
> create
> there to create a new admin persona.  All admin personae must be given
> names
> of the form 'username:descrip', such as 'broccol:GASH Admin', etc.
> 
> The reason for this is that the admin persona object is primarily
> designed
> to be viewed from within the user's persona panel.  In that context,
> it
> doesn't make sense to be given the choice of changing the user
> associated
> with the admin persona.  So, the server's management class for the
> admin
> persona object hides the field that is used to associate the admin
> persona
> with the user.  Since you then can't set that field yourself, you have
> to depend on the persona panel's create logic to associate the admin
> persona with the associated user.
> 
> All of which seems a bit baroque (pronounced 'broke'), now that I
> actually
> spell out how it works.  I may go ahead and changes things around a
> bit,
> so that you don't have to set a persona name of username:description,
> and
> so that the admin persona can be created and edited from the tree,
> etc.  I'll
> just make it so that when an admin persona is displayed in a user's
> persona
> panel, the user field will be hidden.
> 
> | you can't not create a new owner group because it keeps giving an
> error
> | with the supergash user.
> 
> Everything we've tried here creating owner groups has worked.  Can you
> describe in more detail what you did here, and what went wrong?  What
> schema are you using?
> 
> | ck
> | 
> | ============================
> | Curtis King
> | Canadian Utilities Limited.
> | email:  curtis.king@cul.ca
> 
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> Jonathan Abbey
> jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
> Applied Research Laboratories                 The University of Texas
> at Austin
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