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[Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I love the idea of user settings having a fallback to system settings,
unless explicitly set by the user. The system settings (whihc includes SMS,
email, language, etc) are used:
1. When creating a user
2. If the setting is null

Thanks for creating the blueprint. 2.23 as target sounds good.

R


On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> HI Rodolfo,
>
> I understand the problem and I think we can do something about it.
>
> I propose this:
>
> 1. We introduce a concept of user settings with fallback to system
> settings, meaning that the default can be set for the system by the
> admins.This could apply to all user settings - I can see this being useful
> also for enabling email notifications, sms notifications, interface style,
> etc.
>
> 2. We add one more option for each user setting called "System default",
> which is selected by default.
>
> 3. We still allow users to override with a user setting - if they really
> want to set it I think they should be able to, otherwise you will get
> complaints.
>
> I have started on a blueprint here:
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/user-setting-fallback
>
> Does it sound okay?
>
> regards,
>
>
> Lars
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Rodolfo Melia <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ola - yes, that's part of the suggestion.
>>
>> I will add that on top of that, you also have a system-wide setting that
>> force ALL users to use short or full name (disabling users the possibility
>> to change the setting)
>>
>> Rodolfo
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rodolfo,
>>>
>>> So you suggest that the admin can change the default setting to use
>>> (name,shortname), and as long as the users don't deliberately change this
>>> in their own settings, then the admin's choice will be used?
>>>
>>> I like that idea.
>>>
>>> Ola
>>> -------
>>> On 15 Dec 2015 4:17 pm, "Rodolfo Melia" <rmelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi - some of the organisations that I'm working with have suggested to
>>>> set the User's 'Property to display in analysis modules' as part of
>>>> the user profile, so when an administrator creates an account, this
>>>> property could be set.
>>>>
>>>> [image: Inline image 1].
>>>>
>>>> I will actually go further, and suggest that there should a system-wide
>>>> setting to fix this property: if an organisation makes the effort to
>>>> carefully compose short names, it should be possible to default
>>>> the analytics to show only short names system-wide.
>>>>
>>>> What do other think?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Rodolfo*
>>>>
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