On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Alvin B. Marcelo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Lars. We'll start it. > > Knut, is Philippines.dhis2.org on 2.10?
Well, it is on a pre-release version of 2.10 from August, and should definitely be updated. I suggest to update directly to 2.11 in a couple of weeks. Knut > Sent from my BB Curve 9320 > ________________________________ > From: Lars Helge Øverland <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 11:47:31 +0100 > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Large volume user management > > Hi Alvin, > > we have actually seen this scenario in several places and we do have support > for it. The principle in DHIS 2 is that when you create a new user, you can > grant/assign a use role if your own user has all of the authorities in the > user role. So: > > You can create an implicit hierarchy like this through at least three user > roles: > > 1) national admin > 2) regional admin > 3) provincial admin. > > The important thing is that user roles must have all of the authorities of > all user roles below themselves in the hierarchy. Seen the other way around, > a user role should only have authorities which are assigned to all user > roles above itself in the hierarchy. > > This way, the national admin users will be able to create regional and > provincial admins. The regional admins will be able to create provincial > admins, but not other regional or national users. And so on. > > Its actually documented there towards the end: > > http://dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/implementer/html/ch15s02.html > > We also have a restore password feature in DHIS 2, introduced in 2.10. It > requires that you > > - configure email sending in settings module -> email. > - enable user account recovery under settings -> access. > > Be aware that users with the ALL authority or certain authorities like data > mart, user roles cannot restore their account for security purposes. > > > cheers > > Lars > > > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Alvin Marcelo <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> We're deploying DHIS2 nationally in the Philippines and I am hitting some >> problems which you may help with: >> >> We have this org unit structure - national -> regional -> provincial -> >> municipality/city. These org units will be encoded centrally. >> >> My problem is assigning user accounts for the municipalities. Here is the >> approach I plan to take: >> >> 1. Create a national administrator. He creates on sub-admin per region. (n >> = 20 regions) >> >> 2. The regional sub-admins create provincial sub-admins. (n = 80 >> provinces) >> >> 3. The provincial sub-admins create the municipality end users (one per >> municipality). (n = 3100 municipalities) >> >> Do you suggest a devolved system for user creation as above or just to >> manage this centrally? >> >> I am expecting a lot of municipality end users forgetting their password. >> How should we manage this? (There is no "Forgot password" function in DHIS2 >> right now)... >> >> Thanks in advance... >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Knut Staring Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo +4791880522 http://dhis2.org _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

