More refined permissions on group files and pages
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| Mahara |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
Posted by Adriaan Vorster on https:/
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I have an academic environment in which there is an Academic Manager that oversees education. The learning is managed by more than one academic supervisor and naturally we have a student that participates in this effort as well.
The learning is structured to have documents that form the basis of the progress and evaluation and these documents has to be version and life cycle managed.
The idea is that there will be a dedicated academic space in which documents could be created and collaboratively worked on, and regularly presented for evaluation, but that only one party, the Academic Manager, will have delete rights on this space.
As the academic repository content will be used for academic evaluation and progress the essence of the requirement is to have a digital space that allows all authorised participants to have controlled access, create and read rights, but that only a designated party could have delete rights.
Is this possible within the Mahara environment?
How would I be able to set up such functionality?
Thanks
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| description: | updated |
| Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in mahara: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
Hi Adriaan,
As far as I know it is currently not possible to distinguish between create and edit rights on a grand scale in Mahara. In Mahara 1.5 you will be able to decide who can create and edit pages (and thus also files), but that goes for both and doesn't distinguish between "create" and "edit".
Once you have uploaded a file you can take off permissions for groups of users (members, tutors, admins), but I would assume that this would be a fairly onerous process in your case as it would mean that everybody would have to remember it. ;-)
That would be a new functionality then to distinguish between creating and editing in the group settings.
If you don't have a 1.5RC2 or Mahara master install, you can check it out at master.
Cheers
Kristina