[Building Sakai] How to create and define tools custom roles

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi,

Your tool can define its own permissions and then a user in a site  
with those permissions can be granted access to certain functions of  
your tool. The roles aren't system wide, they are site-wide, so this  
should sort you out. The only thing that is system wide are user  
types, but once in a site, a user is assigned a role.

For your tool to register it's own permissions, check out  
authz.api.FunctionManager.

Then, if you go to the Admin Realms tool, find a site then find the  
roles in that site you can set the permissions for the roles. You'd  
then add these updated permissions to the realm templates for new  
sites (and backfill them to existing sites, but thats a separate issue).

You can also see here for some more info about roles in sites:
http://steve-on-sakai.blogspot.com/2009/05/roles-in-sakai-sites.html

cheers,
Steve

On 22/10/2009, at 11:36 AM, Tiago Gaspar wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm working on a tool for Sakai that requires specific roles. Not
> system-wide roles, but specific tool roles. I couldn't find any
> documentation regarding that. I could implement my own solution to the
> problem, but I would like to follow the Sakai way of doing it. Is
> there a Sakai for doing it? :-)
>
> Appreciate,
> Tiago.
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