It's getting the legacy allocations into the portal that's not making me happy. Admittedly, the process is painful but I didn't think there'd be too many since we've had several years to get things in. Rob's point about needing some kind of bulk update process is well taken, and I'll look into that.
I think what I need is some way to feed a list of subnet/callsign pairs into the portal (using a tab-separated file, XML file, json file, or whatever the implementer feels most happy with) and it can create the subnet allocations and set the type and the description of the subnet (to that callsign), but leave the owner unset.
Then, when this particular OM creates a portal account and is validated and accepted the normal way, those dangling subnet allocations would be automatically attached to his account without me having to approve them.
Alternatively, rudimentary accounts could be created automatically so the subnets could be attached to them immediately, but the completion with the details asked when this particular call is registering would be deferred until that happens.
Important is that I can make bulk changes (like addition of a thousand entries) as a coordinator without having to go through the current process of "registrant fills a webform, I receive a mail and have to go to the portal and add/change some fields to approve it" for each and every of those subnets.
It would be nice if there also is a way to process a callsign or allocation change this way (delete old still dangling subnet allocations and create new ones with different address or different callsign from a batch file). This because we are in the process of building new nodes and need to renumber some areas, which could contain entries that are not yet claimed by the owner.
Furthermore I would like to have the capability, as a coordinator, to change the address and owner of an already allocated subnet. I can now change the type, description and notes of an allocation, but not the address or user it is allocated to. (this would not need to be a batch operation, just an addition to the existing "Coordinator: Network Allocations" screen would suffice)
Rob