Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seeking suggested minimum permissions for user groups.

[Jason Etheridge]

> Any little bit helps since we're rolling up our sleeves and diving in.
> (Sorry for the mixed metaphor.)

Hi Serenity,

It's not pretty, but here are the stock permission groups in Evergreen
and their associated permissions:

http://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen-user:stock_permission_groups

There's a hierarchy there with permission inheritance.

For example, every group falls under the "Users" group at the top of
the hierarchy, and the Users group has the OPAC_LOGIN permission,
which means, that every user regardless of their permission group will
have the OPAC_LOGIN permission.  There is no way to configure
"negative" permissions.

Also, in modern Evergreen it's much easier to handle putting a user
into multiple permission groups, so you don't, for example,
necessarily have to clutter the Catalogers group with
circulation-related permissions, you could instead make a user both a
Cataloger and a Circulator.

And one more big thing to remember, for most of these permissions to
work you also have to give a staff member one or more "Working
Locations" from the User Permission Editor.

-- 
Jason Etheridge
| Community and Migration Manager
| Equinox Software - Open Your Library
| 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
| ja...@esilibrary.com
| http://www.esilibrary.com

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seeking suggested minimum permissions for user groups.

[Serenity Ibsen]

Hi Kathy, thanks so much for the link.

Any little bit helps since we're rolling up our sleeves and diving in.
(Sorry for the mixed metaphor.)

Thanks again!

Serenity

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Kathy Lussier 
wrote:

> Hi Serenity,
>
> Welcome to the community!
>
> I believe that documentation is something that was ported over from the
> Evergreen in Action book, which was published a few years back. We moved a
> portion of the book into our official docs, but there are still chapters
> that were never ported over. It looks like the Appendix is one of the
> sections that needs to be added to the official docs.
>
> You can see the suggested permissions at:
>
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/evergreen-in-action/appendix-a-suggested-profile-permissions/
>
> Thanks for letting us know about this oversight!
> Kathy
>
>
> On 06/21/2016 02:39 PM, Serenity Ibsen wrote:
>
> Hi all! I'm in the early stages of system configuration on an instance of
> 2.10 and I saw in the documentation mention of, "*an appendix with a
> listing of suggested minimum permissions for some essential groups.*"
>
> This phrase is in almost all documentation from 2.4 onward, but I can't
> seem to find this appendix anywhere. I found a list of permissions in an
> appendix in the 2.1 documentation, but that's not quite what I need.
>
> My organization is very small and we'll have probably only 3-4 levels of
> user permissions, so it would save A LOT of time to find a list of
> suggested permissions instead of going through each manually. We have
> Student circulators, Library Assistant cataloger/circulator, and then me
> and our Access Services Manager who are the project managers for this, so
> we'd probably be Global Admins. Oh, and volunteers who would probably be
> catalogers. Though, I'm still not sure.
>
> Does anyone have a similar set-up?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Serenity Ibsen
> Interim Director of Library Services
> Technical Services and Archives Librarian
> PNCA | Pacific Northwest College of Art
> 511 NW Broadway
> Portland, OR 97209-3404
> 503-821-8953 | Office
> library.pnca.edu
>
>
> --
> Kathy Lussier
> Project Coordinator
> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative(508) 343-0128kluss...@masslnc.org
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
>
>


-- 
Serenity Ibsen
Interim Director of Library Services
Technical Services and Archives Librarian
PNCA | Pacific Northwest College of Art
511 NW Broadway
Portland, OR 97209-3404
503-821-8953 | Office
library.pnca.edu

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Seeking suggested minimum permissions for user groups.

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi Serenity,

Welcome to the community!

I believe that documentation is something that was ported over from the 
Evergreen in Action book, which was published a few years back. We moved 
a portion of the book into our official docs, but there are still 
chapters that were never ported over. It looks like the Appendix is one 
of the sections that needs to be added to the official docs.


You can see the suggested permissions at:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/evergreen-in-action/appendix-a-suggested-profile-permissions/

Thanks for letting us know about this oversight!
Kathy

On 06/21/2016 02:39 PM, Serenity Ibsen wrote:
Hi all! I'm in the early stages of system configuration on an instance 
of 2.10 and I saw in the documentation mention of, "*an appendix with 
a listing of suggested minimum permissions for some essential groups.*"


This phrase is in almost all documentation from 2.4 onward, but I 
can't seem to find this appendix anywhere. I found a list of 
permissions in an appendix in the 2.1 documentation, but that's not 
quite what I need.


My organization is very small and we'll have probably only 3-4 levels 
of user permissions, so it would save A LOT of time to find a list of 
suggested permissions instead of going through each manually. We have 
Student circulators, Library Assistant cataloger/circulator, and then 
me and our Access Services Manager who are the project managers for 
this, so we'd probably be Global Admins. Oh, and volunteers who would 
probably be catalogers. Though, I'm still not sure.


Does anyone have a similar set-up?

Thanks!

Serenity Ibsen
Interim Director of Library Services
Technical Services and Archives Librarian
PNCA | Pacific Northwest College of Art
511 NW Broadway
Portland, OR 97209-3404
503-821-8953 | Office
library.pnca.edu 


--
Kathy Lussier
Project Coordinator
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
(508) 343-0128
kluss...@masslnc.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier