Interesting Issue With "YellowBleeders" Online Status
Chris Whisonant
Earlier today, Mr. Tripcony pinged me saying that only a handful of people were showing up online at the BleedYellow Sametime Community. After having dinner with him (good choice, btw), I came back to the hotel and started to look at the issue. The YellowBleeders group contains a subgroup as its only member. This subgroup, in turn, contains multiple subgroups with long lists of accounts. The registration process adds people to a group and then creates another group after the previous one reaches a certain size (y'know, the whole 32K list thing...). We're up to 800 registrations! so there are 3 groups. But I digress...
Initially, I thought that the problem was the nesting of groups. However, I noticed that the first group had about 30 names sorted and then the remainder wasn't sorted. This was because I had previously modified this group to add the Org to the names, and on saving it the group was automatically sorted. It turns out that the only people I could see online just happened to be in that first group, and just happened to be in that section of sorted names. So after sorting all of the groups, some more names began to appear in the list of online users!
Let me know if you still see some issues with this. I need to modify the code to sort the groups automatically, but I don't want to mess with that code while I'm away from the office for a few days...