[AG-TECH] Re: Bug Report 754

[Susanne Lefvert]

Andrew,

I agree with you and we are working on getting more informative dialogs/ui  
for personal data, thank you for your comments.  I'm forwarding this 
message to the ag-tech mailing list so more people can answer your questions.

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Susanne


On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Andrew Daviel wrote:

> 
> Thank you for the reply
> 
> Your explanation sounds reasonable, though as a "dumb user" I would 
> somehow expect that if the service wasn't offered it wouldn't show up
> as a clickable object,  but I appreciate  the problems.
> 
> I was getting my feet wet with the AG 2.1 release
> on Linux and doing the "click on this and see what happens"  thing.
> I later found I could do "get user profile" under 2.1 on Linux (but not 
> 2.0 on XP - could not install 2.1 due to some DLL missing) which was
> probably more the kind of user info what I expected to see.
> 
> I also found I could create my own personal data file
> which showed up on the server, but when I clicked on it the
> venue client didn't know what app to run. I couldn't quickly figure out
> why not (there's something in $HOME/.mime.types and /etc/mime.types
> for text/plain) - a JPEG at ANL started a reasonable viewer.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Susanne Lefvert wrote:
> 
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > I read your Access Grid bug report about user info.
> > 
> > ---
> > connected to NewMic venue server
> > shows a user
> > click on user to get info
> > popup says "info can not be retrieved"
> > 
> > does this work ?
> > This is Andrew Daviel advax at triumf.ca
> > ---
> > 
> > Each participant connected to a venue can have personal data and I assume 
> > that is the info you are referring to in your bug report. There are cases 
> > when personal data can not be retrieved. If the other participant is 
> > using an older version of the AGTk software, the SOAP method called for 
> > personal data does not exist and the call will fail. Also, if the other 
> > participant is behind a firewall the SOAP call will fail. 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Susanne
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
> Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376
> security at triumf.ca
> 
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