[rt-users] sort order of users (while adding to a group)

[Jesse Vincent]

On Wed 25.Mar'09 at 15:08:21 +0000, Dave Holland wrote:
> When adding a user to a group, the list of users available to be added
> is sorted by "Name" but apparently presented as "Realname". That results
> in a confusingly non-sorted list if - as in our situation - users'
> "Name" is their login name which might not match the name they use, e.g.
> login name "ab1" (from "Anthony Bloggs") but the Realname is "Tony
> Bloggs" will be sorted amongst the names beginning with "A".
> 
> Here's a patch to Admin/Elements/SelectNewGroupMembers which achieves
> sorting by Realname. If there's no Realname set then the Name shows
> instead.


It's worth noting that display of names is a per-user config. It
probably makes more sense to key off that.

> 
> --- /opt/rt3/share/html/Admin/Elements/SelectNewGroupMembers	2009-02-03 11:53:01.000000000 +0000
> +++ /opt/rt3/local/plugins/RTx-Sanger-SortUsersByRealname/html/Admin/Elements/SelectNewGroupMembers	2009-03-25 14:52:25.000000000 +0000
> @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
>      ENTRYAGGREGATOR => 'AND'
>  );
>  $users->LimitToPrivileged();
> +$users->OrderBy( FIELD => $UserOrderBy, ORDER => $UserOrder );
>  
>  my $groups = new RT::Groups($session{'CurrentUser'});
>  
> @@ -99,4 +100,6 @@
>  $Group
>  $SkipUsers => {}
>  $SkipGroups => {}
> +$UserOrderBy => 'RealName'
> +$UserOrder => 'ASC'
>  </%ARGS>
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
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