[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Does anyone know how the group permissions at the top of Resources tool work?

[Neal Caidin]

Finally came back to this issue.

I cannot reproduce the steps, even on Longsight qa10 server.  I've created
a couple of groups but I don't see an option under Resources -> Permissions
to select any of the groups and assign group specific permissions.

Puzzled.

-- Neal


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

>  We have just looked in to this. We have a scenario:
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> A lecturer wants 3 of his students to act as editors and upload PDFs into
> a folder in resources. He wants all other students to be able to read these
> PDFs. He doesn’t want to give the 3 editors a different role in the site.
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> So I suggested this.
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> 1/ Create 2 Site sub Groups
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> Student Authors: includes the 3 authors
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> Student Readers: includes all other students.
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> 2/ In Resources – click on the Permissions button at the top of the screen
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>   a/ select Student Authors from drop down list and give them “create”
> permission (and edit & delete own)
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>  b/ select Student Readers from list and make sure they don’t have
> ‘Create’ etc
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> 3/ We then create a subfolder and make available only to the 2 groups the
> idea being that people in Authors group will have and extra permission or 2
> compared to the Readers group.
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> ++++++++++++++++++++++
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> If one logs in as a member of Authors group that one does indeed see the
> “Add” option in Resources
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> If one logs in as a Reader one also see the “Add” option.
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> In both cases the individual user can upload files.
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> That cant be right can it?
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> Unless I’m misunderstanding how things are supposed to work, then this is
> an escalation of privileges type bug isn’t it?
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> This is all in place on fawei-test on https://qa10.longsight.com/
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> adam
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> ** Note change of email address to adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk **
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> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, University of Oxford.
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> IT Services, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford. OX2 6NN.
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> *From:* sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Fawei Geng
> *Sent:* 27 January 2015 17:29
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> *Subject:* [Using Sakai] Does anyone know how the group permissions at
> the top of Resources tool work?
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> Dear all,
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> Does anyone know how the group permissions at the top of Resources tool
> work?
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> The purpose of my test was to allow members in a group with access or
> student role to be able to create/delete files in a folder in Resources
> while other users with access (student) role in the site are still able to
> view the folder content.
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> This is how I tested:
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> ·         Log into a Sakai project site as a maintain role (I believe it
> will be the same for a course site).  Create a group via Site Info > Manage
> Group.  The group includes a few access users (or students)
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> ·         Go to Resources and click on “Permissions” at the top: see
> attached screen shot “Permissions -1”
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> ·         On the next page, click on the drop-down list next to “Set
> permissions for” and select the group created, e.g. group, and then I
> granted ‘create’ and ‘delete own’ permissions for this group
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> As a result of above, I was hoping that  the group members would be able
> to create/delete files in Resources in the site.   However, after logging
> into the site as a group member, I was not able to create/upload files in
> Resources.  In other words, the settings above did not make much
> difference.
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> Could anyone please let me know where I did it wrong?
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> Many thanks in advance.
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> Fawei
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> IT Services, University of Oxford
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