[Building Sakai] Fwd: Hierarchy working as expected?

[Adam Marshall]

This is the behaviour that we are seeing too; in fact it is your message that finally explained where the weird selection of groups that we were seeing came from.

It is not at all useful for us at all.

We do not use the central admin username for anything, indeed it is the departmental administrators who will set up evaluations and they will want to grant access to the departmental heads who will probably want to grant access to the divisions who will want to give access to the various university committees higher up the food chain (and so on).

Therefore, a better model for us would be to give the individual survey author the ability to grant access to a list of named individuals who could then grant permissions to a list of people higher up and so on and so forth. This should probably be done on a survey by survey basis (with the ability to say "I want the view permissions to be just like this survey" or to set up a new set of people who can view)

Adam

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Nicola Monat-Jacobs
Sent: 22 February 2010 15:05
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org List
Subject: [Building Sakai] Fwd: Hierarchy working as expected?

I originally sent this query to the Evaluation system list, but I haven't heard back yet, so I thought I'd send out to the dev list too. Sorry for the double-post.

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From: Nicola Monat-Jacobs <nicola at longsight.com<mailto:nicola at longsight.com>>
Date: February 19, 2010 1:28:26 PM EST
To: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Subject: Hierarchy working as expected?

Hi All -

I've seen that there are some schools on this list using hierarchy, so I thought I'd throw my question out there as we're currently trying to get it set up.

I'm running a checkout of trunk of the evaluation system, but we're seeing a perplexing problem. When attempting to add groups/sites to a hierarchy node, it appears that only sites that have the sakai admin user enrolled are available to add.

This happens on Sakai 2.6.x and Sakai 2.7/trunk. It happens if you are logged in as admin or as a user that has admin powers. The course sites have the correct evalsys permissions in their realms, so I'm a little confused... is this by design? How do other schools use hierarchy? Is the admin user assigned to all your sites?

Thanks,

Nicola Monat-Jacobs
The Longsight Group
nicola at longsight.com<mailto:nicola at longsight.com>




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