[Webcom] Service Provider Fix/Upgrade

[Frank Warmerdam]

For the sake of completeness, I'm copying this reply from Ian here:

"""

Hi Adam,

If we throw away what we currently have and start from scratch then I agree
that views would be the obvious way to go.

As far as I can see, your suggestion doesn't allow an institution to log in
and edit their own profile - instead someone with the correct role can edit
all 'service provider' nodes?

Is your plan for migrating the exiting profile information to cut and
paste?  We'd then remove the old pages and allow external search engines to
reindex?

The new guidelines would be to contact WebCom to get pages added or updated?

I haven't had a proper look, but the custom PHP code does not look that
complicated - but it's proper legacy code and presumably would require live
editing and testing to fix.  I also don't currently understand our LDAP
integration.  I'm happy to test and document what we currently have and
suggest a fix. It's obvious that we'll need to replace this at some stage
in the future, but that probably applies to many other areas of the site
and we'll want approach any redesign in a well thought our and consistent
way.

Ian

"""



On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'm opening a new thread to discuss Adam Włodarkiewicz's suggested plan to
> fix the Service Provider Directory which is currently broken due to the
> mysterious loss of a page of PHP code, described in:
>
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1105
>
> Adam has suggested:
> """
> I propose introducing a 'service provider' content type. This would give it
> the advantage of customizable permissions and easy integration with views
> among other Drupal goodness. Permissions can be configured to give editing
> rights not just to osgeo.org maintainers, but any user with the correct
> role (again, configurable in Drupal). Such role can be given to users who
> are representatives of the service providers. Views module allows creation
> of different kinds of lists and displays of content. A list containing only
> the service provider content type would be trivial to create, much like
> creating filters to limit the list to only service provider from a given
> country, etc. Further more, this filter can be exposed to the user (for
> example as a select box) and ajax can be used to refresh the list. As far
> as I understand, this pretty much covers the current functionality and
> more, in addition to being drupalish. All of the above mentioned
> configuration can be done via clicking in the administration menu.
>
> Importing existing entries can be easily done via a proper import module,
> assuming it would not be too difficult to export the current data in, for
> example, csv format.
> """
>
> I'm slightly concerned that the filtering may be more clumsy than the
> service provider directory.  Adam, can you point me at something similar
> done with Drupal so I have a sense of what it might look like and interact
> like?
>
> I will note that the existing service provider directory is in a mysql
> table
> - the same one as the drupal content.
>
> Ian has also expressed interest in helping with this issue - Ian, do you
> have thoughts on this approach?
>
> Personally, it sounds pretty good to me.  I'm wondering if it is something
> we could start prototyping on Drupal now and just not link to it from
> anywhere prominent on the web site.  If there are no immediate concerns
> I would be interesting in starting an experiment on this new content type
> and filtering interaction and could arrange appropriate access for Adam.
> Perhaps a motion covering the experiment would be appropriate to
> gauge support.  I'd also include adding Adam to Webcom.
>
> Best regards,
> --
>
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>



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I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Software Developer