Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> Hi Lenya devs,
>
> the question is about determining the name of the
author of a document,
> e.g. for inclusion in RSS feeds.
>
> At the moment, the user ID is stored in the dc:creator
meta data field.
> This allows to determine the full name, but only if the
user still
> exists. If the user has been deleted from the system,
there is no way to
> find out her name.
>
> IMO we have to store both values, the user ID of the
original creator
> (for internal purposes) and the full name (to be
displayed). IMO the
> dc:creator field should contain the full name to make
rendering as
> straightforward as possible. That would mean we'd have
to introduce a
> new field for the user ID of the creator, probably as
part of the
> http://
apache.org/lenya/metadata/document/1.0 meta data.
>
If we want to integrate external identity provider as done
in the
lenya-1.2 shibboleth branch this issue will be important
because user
information do not persist on the system. Therefore we have
to store
informations, which should be persistent, as the full name,
somewhere on
the cms as e.g. in the metadata as Andreas proposed.
Jann
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