Hi Chris, I have only recently started to delve into the authz implementation of Matterhorn, but from what I have seen so far, your assumption is correct and you should be able to add arbitrary actions assigned (permissions) to roles.
Tobias On 17.02.2012, at 17:58, Christopher Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We need to add a new permission to videos for instructors. We're > planning to add it as an "analyse" string, and to update the UI to > allow this to be set. If set, people in a given role would be able to > run the analysis tools on a lecture. > > It seems that permissions are just handled as arbitrary strings and we > can just add it to our application code and set it on the back end > without having to concern ourselves with specifying it in a schema or > data structure somewhere. Anyone know if this is not true (or not the > way we should proceed)? > > Chris > > -- > Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc > ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan > > Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 > Phone: 1.306.966.1442 > Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory > Department of Computer Science > University of Saskatchewan > 176 Thorvaldson Building > 110 Science Place > Saskatoon, SK > S7N 5C9 > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
