External Users 1.8 - 26th March 2012 - Release notes
External users 1.8 was a major new release, released on 26th March 2012. Highlights from this release include:
New interface
We've re-designed the interface for External Users to make it easier to use and a little easier on the eye.
External user groups
All users in external users now belong to a group (any users created before this feature have been moved to a single group of "Users created by
- They can be owned by many administrators, meaning that more than one person can manage groups of users
- They allow operations to be performed on many users at once
In a future release, it will also be possible to directly map a group in External Users' to a group in Web Groups.
Batch user management
It is now possible to perform certain common operations on many users at once, such as:
- Deleting users
- Updating the expiry date of a set of users
- Updating the status of a set of users (disable or enable a set of users)
- Move users to a different group
Documentation
- [] - Documentation for groups
Sub-task
- [] - Paging for user list
- [] - Check with users who may be updating users programatically
- [] - Column sorting for user tables
- [] - Expiry search for external users
- [] - List Disabled External Users Page
- [] - Search for users by usercode or name
Bug
- [] - Create-a-creator screen doesn't validate usercode
- [] - Can't uncheck "Live" checkbox
- [] - Prevent usercodes from containing non-ASCII characters
- [] - List all users page: shows "select whole group" link unnecessarily
- [] - Some search and list operations fail when a user has no groups.
Idea
- [] - Allow external users to have many owners
Improvement
- [] - Improve batch management
- [] - Redirect home page to the HTTPS version
- [] - Add bulk operations to the List Users screen
- [] - Restrict length of usercode field to 30 characters (for new usercodes)
- [] - Improvements to UI
New Feature
- [] - Web interface to change ownership of a user
- [] - Groups
- [] - Feature flags
- [] - External User search
- [] - Allow bulk upload of many users via CSV
Task
- [] - Make test-ext-users use new-mode SSO
- [] - Make live ext-users be new-mode