Jack Eapen C <jackec@...> writes:
Hi,
in our wiki, no. of users are very limited- 300 or so. Is anyone
developed some function to show a combobox in MW forms which will list
all the usernames from which one can be selected? i would like to have
this in user right forms, task extension, etc. otherwise, how can one
remember the exact usernames and type in correctly?
Regards,
Jack Eapen C
SunTec Knowledge Centre
Hello,
If I am understanding correctly, you would like to see the combo box with user
names of all valid users. As far as I know there is no such capability in
either the rights form nor the task extension. I think the reason it is not in
the rights form is because it is only available to sysops and they are expected
to know/figure out who the valid users are (if nothing else use
[[Special:Listusers]]).
As for the task extension, if you referring to my
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Todo_Tasks extension, then I think I
understand where you are coming from. I had the same concern when writing the
extension. Basically, what I came up with is that a combo box approach is not
realistic during editing because all editing is done in plain text. However, to
make task assignment easier, the task assigner can just type in any of the
following to assign a task (in order of preference:
1. wiki username
2. user full name (first space last)
3. last name of the user
4. partial match of any part of user name
This has worked very well on our wiki where we have roughly the same number of
users as you. Most assigners know at least part of the assignee's name. And if
they don't, then perhaps they should not be assigning tasks ? :-)
Paul.