[Building Sakai] Configure a role of instructor so that he just can update Site Info (course's syllabus) only

Tin Nguyen nguyentrongtin89 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 17:55:27 PDT 2012


Hi Raad, Steve,
Thanks for your support.
I have read the Jira issue SAK-7768. Do you think we should split site.upd
to other small functions? If we do this, we can more flexible configure for
site.upd and make it suitable for some situations (exp. my request).

Best regard,

Tin Nguyen

2012/7/21 Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> This is Jira'd as:
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-7768
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
> On 21/07/2012, at 2:28 AM, Raad Al-Rawi wrote:
>
> Hi Tin****
> ** **
> I’m afraid you are correct – the admin/maintain permissions are not that
> fine-grained as to allow editing the site information but not editing the
> tools. Unfortunately, in the code, the 2 functions are enabled by the same
> permission (site.upd).****
> ** **
> ** **
> Best****
> ** **
> Raad****
> ** **
> *From:* Tin Nguyen [mailto:nguyentrongtin89 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 18 July 2012 16:13
> *To:* Raad Al-Rawi
> *Cc:* sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Configure a role of instructor so that he
> just can update Site Info (course's syllabus) only****
> ** **
> Hi Raad, ****
> Thanks for your answer. ****
> The thing I want is the instructor just only have privilege to edit Site
> Information, not have privilege to control other functions (add user to
> site, add tools, ...). If I configure the role of instructor with site.upd,
> he not only can modify site's title/description but also can add more tools
>  and can do some other functions. Can I configure Sakai to do this? ****
> ** **
> Best Regards, ****
> ** **
> Tin Nguyen****
> ** **
> p/s: i have read Permission Definitions in Sakai here
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Permission+Definitions+in+Sakai+2.5 and
> I don't see any strategy to configure the instructor's role like i want. *
> ***
>
> ** **
> 2012/7/18 Raad Al-Rawi <Raad.Al-Rawi at admin.cam.ac.uk>****
> Hi Tin****
>  ****
> There is more than 1 permission that controls the various admin functions,
> e.g. site.upd allows them to change the site configuration (edit
> title/description, edit tools etc.) but won’t let them amend membership
> (that’s controlled by the site.upd.site.mbrshp permission)****
>  ****
> What things do you want them to be able to do in Site Info?****
>  ****
>  ****
> Best regards****
>  ****
> Raad****
>  ****
>  ****
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> Raad Al-Rawi****
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> *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Tin Nguyen
> *Sent:* 18 July 2012 14:47
> *To:* sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Subject:* [Building Sakai] Configure a role of instructor so that he
> just can update Site Info (course's syllabus) only****
>  ****
> Hi all,
> I have a question is can we configure a role of instructor so that the
> instructor just can update Site Info (in our university, it's course's
> syllabus) only?
> If we can't configure, is there another tool to use?
>
> Please help me,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tin Nguyen****
>
>
> ****
> ** **
>
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