Description of scope of microblogs gives false impression of privacy

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.5 EE, 2.0.5 CE
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.X CE, 2.1.0 EE GA3
• Component/s: Social Office Dashboard, Social Office Dashboard > Microblogs
• Labels:
  • SO_6.1.20_PASS
  • SO_6.1.30_PASS
  • SO_CE_UT
• Fix Priority: 4

Currently, when creating a microblog, you can set the scope to be "Viewable by" Everyone, Connections or Followers.

The words "Viewable by" may give the user the expectation of privacy that this cannot be viewed by other users beyond this scope. However, should one of the users who can view the microblog repost it, the resultant activity/microblog clearly points back to the original poster. We should update the text to reduce the possibility of creating this expectation of privacy.

Perhaps instead of "Viewable by" we can use "Post to" or "Broadcast to". Suggestions?

[Matthew Kong]

There's actually a check in place already that says you can't repost a microblog that is not scoped to everyone.

The correct fix is to not show the repost button if the microblog is scoped to anything other than "everyone"

[Benjamin Yeh (Inactive)]

PASSED Manual Testing using the following steps.

1. Add SOUser
2. Add Connection to SOUser
3. Add Microblogs
4. Sign in as SOUser
5. Add Comment to Microblogs

Fixed on:
Tomcat 7.0.40 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.30 EE GA3
Plugins 6.1.x EE GIT ID: 9485f6bd78cd20ff47da3c8f4abf1b272d6907e3.

Tomcat 7.0.40 + MySQL 5. Portal 6.1.20 EE GA2
Plugins 6.1.x EE GIT ID: 9485f6bd78cd20ff47da3c8f4abf1b272d6907e3.

System no longer displays Repost for the connected user.