Showcasing Personnel with Faculty/Staff Directory

Need to read through this and try FSD out.

They have some *really* good stuff in there. It does a "user provider" (using membrane and remember) and then allows you to build up a lot of profile data, among other cool features.

We use FSD at WSC to list all of our personnel. It is an awesome product, especially (as you would guess) for Higher Education. We don't use everything at the moment that is offers, but we're working our way there.

I have not used cyn very long, so maybe there is a better way to do this. But, a nice feature of FSD is that the departments are tied to plone groups and there is a personnel manager role that can be department/group specific. This then allows for courser grain distributed/user authorization of projects (or spaces). A department can be set up, which creates a group (I like to imagine that one would create a <project>_collab departement/group and a <project>_reader departement/group. The <project>_collab group is expected to give at least contributor and editor roles and the <project>_reader is expected to give reader role.

With this basic setup, a regular user with the personnel manager role for specific departments adds and subtracts members from their group(s), elevating or lowing role from reader to collaborator and vice versa.

Created spaces can then be access/role controlled via sharing. The advantage of the groups is that group level sharing of spaces might be easier to manage in complex environments, simply adding or subtracting a user from a set of departments rather than trying to find all of the sharing tabs and being able to do this at the user level via the personnel manager.

WEs

I have not used cyn very long, so maybe there is a better way to do this. But, a nice feature of FSD is that the departments are tied to plone groups and there is a personnel manager role that can be department/group specific. This then allows for courser grain distributed/user authorization of projects (or spaces). A department can be set up, which creates a group (I like to imagine that one would create a <project>_collab departement/group and a <project>_reader departement/group. The <project>_collab group is expected to give at least contributor and editor roles and the <project>_reader is expected to give reader role.

With this basic setup, a regular user with the personnel manager role for specific departments adds and subtracts members from their group(s), elevating or lowing role from reader to collaborator and vice versa.

Created spaces can then be access/role controlled via sharing. The advantage of the groups is that group level sharing of spaces might be easier to manage in complex environments, simply adding or subtracting a user from a set of departments rather than trying to find all of the sharing tabs and being able to do this at the user level via the personnel manager.

WEs

Interesting. Yes, this is at least one of the applications we were thinking of solving with FSD - among many others, it's quite big, that project. :)