Hi Darius,
Thanks for setting me straight. I confused the "Restrict By Role Module" with the "Restrict By Encounter Type Module" by the HISP India group which would address the needs of TRUNK-1640. We do NOT need the "Restrict By Role Module". I recently added TRUNK-1640 as "Extra Credit" on the Filtering Forms on Dashboard Design Page because it's related. The GSoC main project is to limit which forms appear in the list of forms that can be filled out. TRUNK-1640 is to limit which role is required for given encounter types to be viewed/edited. https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Jembi+Html+Form+Entry+Module Roles Based Form Display On the form designer, roles can be associated with forms. Roles associated with a form can either be associated as a "View" role or an "Edit" role (or the equivalent "Both" role). On the patient dashboard, if there are roles associated with a form, then the currently authenticated user must have the appropriate roles to view and/or edit a form. Can we make TRUNK-1640 an official requirement for the GSoC project? Or is that something that can be addressed through the Roles and Privileges Sprint? Thanks, James From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darius Jazayeri Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Roles and Privileges Sprint About filtering things by roles... Filtering forms by roles and patient characteristics is a GSoC project this year (https://wiki.openmrs.org/x/OIW5AQ, student = Goutham Vasireddi) so we will not be working on that during the sprint. (But yes, we know it's highly voted and much awaited!) The Restrict By Role <https://modules.openmrs.org/modules/view.jsp?module=restrictbyrole> module allows you to use Cohort Builder queries to limit the patients a given Role can see. As far as I know, this is the only published module that lets you limit the patients that particular users are allowed to see, although that's a frequently-requested feature. This was a very early module (from 2007), so the code is mediocre, it probably slows down your patient searches a lot, and the API has changed since then so it probably misses a lot of restrictions. [The reason there aren't any other published modules doing this is that it's basically impossible to solve the problem generically in a performant way.) So the question is: are there any implementers out there who would like to see us spend some developer cycles doing a modernized version of Restrict By Role? It would: * let you restrict the patients that particular users/roles can see based on reporting module cohort queries (instead of cohort builder) * cache query results so it slows things down less than the current module does If there's interest, we can spend some cycles on this during the sprint. (And if not, not.) -Darius On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:22 PM, James Arbaugh <[email protected]> wrote: Greetings all! One of our highest priorities should be the RestrictByRole module capability; the ability to specify which user roles can view/edit which encounters. This is important to many based on the number of people that have voted (6) for the "Add roles-based form display feature ticket"... https://tickets.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-1640 ...which includes the ability to "filter form viewing and editing based on roles". This is also something that comes up frequently on the mailing list and on OpenMRS Answers. https://answers.openmrs.org/questions/585/a-way-to-set-role-privileges-t o-specific-form-entry-forms +1 on improving documentation Thanks, James From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Kayiwa Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Roles and Privileges Sprint Greetings to you all!!! We are soon going to have a sprint on roles and privileges, during which we are thinking of dealing with the following topics: 1) Make it easy for an admin to see what privileges are needed to perform a sequence of actions. 2) Improve the page a user sees when they fail a privilege check. 3) Improve documentation on how to use privileges/roles and avoid pitfalls. 4) Implement Organizational Role as designed in this wiki page: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Organizational+Roles Do you feel the above topics address what the community needs, as far as roles and privileges are concerned? Does anyone want a modernized version of the Restrict By Role module? Do you have anything to say about the Organizational Role API design? All questions, comments and suggestions are very welcome!!! 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