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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

So for things like views and artefacts we save the owner id, whether it
is user,group,institution id (in this case we'd need to use the
institution id rather than name) + owner type, either
'user','group','institution'.

The reasons FOR this are:
1) We can add a uniqueness constraint on the owner/ownertype as they can't allow null values
2) We would start using the institution id instead of passing round the name for better code consistency
3) It would allow easy addition of another ownertype if we wished without having to add more columns

The reasons AGAINST this are:
1) The use of the owner/group/institution is widely used throughout the system so changing anything will take a lot of patches to say the least
2) Create problems for third party plugins

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: New

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1521427

Title:
  Would like to have owner + ownertype columns rather than owner, group,
  institution

Status in Mahara:
  New

Bug description:
  So for things like views and artefacts we save the owner id, whether
  it is user,group,institution id (in this case we'd need to use the
  institution id rather than name) + owner type, either
  'user','group','institution'.

  The reasons FOR this are:
  1) We can add a uniqueness constraint on the owner/ownertype as they can't allow null values
  2) We would start using the institution id instead of passing round the name for better code consistency
  3) It would allow easy addition of another ownertype if we wished without having to add more columns

  The reasons AGAINST this are:
  1) The use of the owner/group/institution is widely used throughout the system so changing anything will take a lot of patches to say the least
  2) Create problems for third party plugins

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