[ome-users] Bug with listing all users?

[Jake Carroll]

Hi,

I’m yet to upgrade to 5.3.x but I have question regarding 5.2.7/8.

I’ve a lot of users – a couple of hundred, who log into OMERO.

One thing I’ve noticed, for whatever reason, in both the web interface and the uploader (Insight) if I pull the drop down menu for “Upload for” or “Upload As”, I only get a limited number of users. I don’t see ALL the users. I noticed this today when I attempted to log in and upload some data on behalf of a user using the “Upload for” dropdown in Insight. The user simply was not there. He’s there in the admin tools. He’s added to groups. He’s got a valid UID and can login just fine – but he’s not there in the drop down menu. 

Wondering what I’m missing. This behaviour seems consistent with a lot of other users too. They are definitely valid, active OME users with data in the system, but I can’t do things with these users/interact with them/upload as or for them. What am I missing? Is this a database extents issue/datatype issue? Maybe nobody ever thought OMERO would have that many users logged into the platform and thus the struct has somehow caught an array bounds issue/too many users for too small a place to hold that many user records? Just a guess.

Might be something far more simple and something I have inadvertently done!

Thank you and talk shortly.

-jc