> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:product-developers- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Miller
> there are some pain points here, however, which will need to be resolved > before this can be touted as something viable for your typical Plone > integrator type, someone w/o the time or skill to dig deeply into the guts of > the user system: > > - Plone needs to autogenerate some UI based on the user objects that PAS > generates. a lot of folks want to use remember just because they don't want > to have to tweak their member profile pages for every member schema change. > this only works when all of the member properties are coming from a single > piece of content. we should be able to wire up user properties from any > arbitrary sources and have simple view and edit screens generated at the > aggregate level, in front of PAS, instead of forcing this to be behind PAS. +1. > - the PAS search APIs are teh suX0r. yes, i know that many of the user > sources might not be able to support sophisticated user enumeration or > searching. but the APIs should be rich and able to support sophisticated > searching, with the weaker plug-ins having the ability to opt-out of > supporting all the features. the current situation is that we have extremely > weak searching APIs, and solutions that provide better support pretty much > have to route around PAS entirely to expose their functionality. the ideal > would be to be able to make calls to the acl_users object which will iterate > through the search plug-ins, transparently constructing queries against both > an LDAP server and a member catalog because the searched-upon properties are > spread across both sources. this isn't going to happen without major > improvements. seriously, the current member searching capabilities are a > joke. > +1, weak searching really causes lots of pain, and limits the ease with which Plone can be used to build sites that connect members to each other. Which is becoming a bigger and bigger part of "online collaboration" stuff. :jon
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