Leslaw, It would be great for you to add a bug to the Matterhorn jira about this issue, if you haven't already. And, I apologize, but the Users tab may not be available in 1.3.
Judy On May 30, 2012, at 7:49 AM, Dr Leslaw Zieleznik wrote: > Thank you Judy, it's very useful. > > I'd only add one observation to the out-of-the-box roles behavior, but expect > who played with the Series must know about it. > The thing is when you edit the default Series and then re-start the system, > all editing will be cleared or reset to the default setup (but any new Series > created by admin will stay intact). > This is because of the setup in the config. properties > org.opencastproject.security.demo.loadusers = true > > Therefore to re-tain your changes in Series, this must set to it 'false' > immediate after the first re-boot. > I don't whether there is any better solution? > >> As far as UI goes, the one thing we do have is the "Users" tab. Though >> hidden, it offers the basic ability to assign roles to users. To unhide it, >> set prop.adminui.i18n_tab_users.enable=true in the configuration file. > > I did try this in the config. properties (on rel 1.3) , but still I can't see > the Users tab? > > Leslaw > > > > On May 29, 2012, at 10:28 PM, Judy Stern wrote: > >> >> On May 28, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Rubén Pérez wrote: >> >>> There are, indeed, ways to restrict the users who can see specific Series / >>> Videos, but I can't find documentation in the wiki about that. However, >>> it's pretty straightforward --you can assign view/edit permissions to >>> specific roles for series and/or individual videos, and then assign the >>> same permissions to users. I'm afraid there's not UI for user management as >>> far as I know, and you should assign such roles directly in the database. >>> >> >> It *is* pretty straightforward, but it should still be documented. There was >> a ticket for this (MH-7787) which, though begun (there's text describing the >> basic functionality and the out-of-the-box roles), was never completed (we >> needed somebody to explain how to add users and roles). >> I've now added the text I wrote to the 1.2 FAQ (the text was too long so I >> made it a child page >> <http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MHDOC/Explanation+of+View+Access+Privileges>, >> adding a link (as an example) to the USask documentation of their LDAP >> integration. It's still missing information about how to assign roles in the >> database. Also, if anyone knows of the right place to put documentation like >> this (that's not really development documentation and not really only >> release documentation), let me know. >> >> As far as UI goes, the one thing we do have is the "Users" tab. Though >> hidden, it offers the basic ability to assign roles to users. To unhide it, >> set prop.adminui.i18n_tab_users.enable=true in the configuration file. >> >> >> Judy >> _______________________________________________ >> Matterhorn-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
