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

[Tiago Gaspar]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the response! I liked your suggestion to use Sakai Realms,
it would make permissions much more flexible. But it would require a
manual configuration of roles and permissions every time the tools is
installed. Is there a way a tool itself can do that configuration
through some API, or some config file, in order to make that process
transparent to the sakai admin ?


Thanks again,

Tiago.



On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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