The mailing list for users of the eduroam Configuration Assistant Tool (CAT)

[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

Hi,

W dniu 30.11.2018 o 09:17, Stefan Winter pisze:
> Hello,
>
>> I added a new profile for NRO Japan on CAT 2.0 and found the following
>> minor issues.
> Thanks for using CAT!
>
>> - The new profile is a shared one for a sort of IdP hosting service in
>> Japan. So I'd like to remove location information. A location
>> information is initially added in the "General Information", and it can
>> be removed. But it will be revived after addition of another Identity
>> Provider Name, and I have to remove again after that.
> The location information is actually rather useful - users who are in
> physical vicinity to an IdP with known location will be shown this IdP
> first in the list, making it more probable that they find their IdP
> without having to search long lists.
>
> And it is possible to add more than one coordinate pair. If your
> meta-IdP services multiple organisations in multiple locations, I
> suggest to add all those locations. You can add locations one at a time,
> each time you edit the general institution properties.
It could also be argued that for global services location information is
hard to maintain, and not really useful to put in every single town.
Indeed we did not think of the case when no location information should
be present, if none is provided we pick a point that is prompted to the
country, it is the "centre' of the country.
As you observed, you can remove it but in the next edit it will be
filled again. I guess we should not save anything unless the user
actually does something like search for the address or drag the pointer.
It think that this would be a useful change and should easy to implement.
>> - I cannot choose a language locale JA for an Identity Provider Name.
>> The name I entered before CAT 2.0 is shown as "unsupported language"...
Stefan has explained the reason,  we only support adding language
variants for languages that are supported by the whole system. It could
be argued that this is wrong. Perhaps we could allow the interface to
run in English but use Japanese strings for admin-supplied values, I can
see arguments both for and against such approach.

Tomasz

> You can only add languages which actually exist as a user front-end
> language in CAT (i.e. what you see on the language dropdown list in UI).
>
> Which means your report is a bit strange: no version of CAT ever was
> translated into Japanese, so I don't see how you could possibly ever
> have entered a value in Japanese. What you should do in the absence of a
> Japanese locale is to enter a value in "default/other languages" instead.
>
> But yes, previously supported languages in CAT 1.x which have now
> stopped being supported due to incomplete translations are now displayed
> as "(unsupported language)". Are you sure that what you entered back in
> the day was Japanese? If you let me know your insititution's ID
> (inst_id=x in the URL of the overview page) then I can take a closer
> look at what's in the database.
>
> All that said, we are perfectly happy to accept a Japanese translation
> for CAT. If you are interested in translating the UI, please get back to
> me off-list.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan Winter
>

-- 
Tomasz Wolniewicz    
          twoln AT umk.pl        http://www.home.umk.pl/~twoln

Uczelniane Centrum Informatyczne   Information&Communication Technology Centre
Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika     Nicolaus Copernicus University,
pl. Rapackiego 1, Torun               pl. Rapackiego 1, Torun, Poland
tel: +48-56-611-2750     fax: +48-56-622-1850       tel kom.: +48-693-032-576

Attachment: smime.p7s
Description: Kryptograficzna sygnatura S/MIME