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Currently if you want to list the head of a faculty, you make a stafflist, and put the email address of the faculty head. It seems this could be better managed if we could change this to simply be [stafflist] Head of Psychology [/stafflist]. We could also use this to automatically provide a list of all lecturors in a department, all administrative staff etc. The details of how this would be managed are still to be ironed out, but I feel it could be a very useful feature that could cut down on labour for the web team in the long run.
Staff members with the same name
If we are to use the name as a unique identifier for the system the situation arises that two separate staff members with the same name will end up sharing a staff page. The current solution for this seems to be simply using the initial of their middle name:
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/search?q=michelle+clarke&site=people_search_collection
Howver, this is doesn't cover the issue of staff members not having, or sharing a middle name as well. This is really an issue with the underlying system and not something we have much control over, so it may simply be that the staff profile page for michelle d. clarke is staff-directory/michelle-d-clarke, and if someone were to go to staff-directory/michelle-clarke there would be a link up the top saying "Did you mean Michelle D. Clarke?".