August 11 2009 Roles and Permissions Discussion Notes

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Meeting attendees:

Sanjay Dalal
Nina Dinoff
Megan Forbes
Jesse Martinez
Richard Millet
Patrick Schmitz
Erin Yu

Difference between roles & permissions - role indicates a person's place in the institution, permissions indicate what a person is allowed to do within the system. A person may have multiple roles (administrator, registrar, etc.).

Difference between permissions and profile - a user profile includes information such as login name and password. Some of this information may be viewed/edited by the user. Permissions are set by the administrator, and may not be altered by a user.

Need to add to functional spec requirement for field-level permissions (as opposed to page level or procedural level)

Looking at the latest wireframes, several comments:

  • Should add the option to give read or read write permission for all, and then take away select permissions
  • Designers to work on additional methods of showing inherited vs. admin-selected permissions (e.g. if read/write is chosen for "object identification information," but then one field is made read only)
  • Also need to figure out way to show not just what permission are associated with each role, but which roles are associated with each permission (or field)