Re: [Gnumed-devel] re: create user UI plugin

[J Busser]

At 12:13 AM +0100 1/19/06, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>  > the extra staff not null details, such as staff role and sign ( 
> which I asssume
> >  you can cut and paste a rsa public key, much like savannah does ) .
>
> Nope, sign is intended for a short "call-sign" thingy, eg
> "Leonard McCoy" has "LMcC". This is used where we need a short
> signum for the provider. Please suggest a better term, anyone.

Maybe consider

short_name
short_form
user_initials
unique_initials

So far, I have not seen in the schema wiki-like spellings for field 
names, for example shortName or uniqueInitials. So probably best to 
not start using them mid-process, even if postgres would tolerate 
them?