Is it possible to close a discussion with a standard user who has RMCD access rights on the module? It seems that only System Admins can close/delete discussions.
I want to adapt a tool we have created in order to allow standard users to close a discussion (deleting a discussion will be reserved for DOORS admins only). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance PatrickGuay - Wed Oct 09 13:32:30 EDT 2013 |
Re: Closing a discussion with a standard user The manual says the standard user who created the Discussion can delete it; otherwise only folks with Archive and User powers (and Discussion permission to the module) can do so. This restriction seems to be within the "deleteDiscussion" DXL perm; so I don't see a way about it. Well, I suppose you COULD change all Standard users to Custom users with Archive and User powers, then remove them all from access to DB properties and remove them from access to all the Groups, ... but that doesn't seem realistic. -Louie |
Re: Closing a discussion with a standard user llandale - Wed Oct 09 14:22:04 EDT 2013 The manual says the standard user who created the Discussion can delete it; otherwise only folks with Archive and User powers (and Discussion permission to the module) can do so. This restriction seems to be within the "deleteDiscussion" DXL perm; so I don't see a way about it. Well, I suppose you COULD change all Standard users to Custom users with Archive and User powers, then remove them all from access to DB properties and remove them from access to all the Groups, ... but that doesn't seem realistic. -Louie Interesting, I will most certainly look into giving slightly more important people, slightly more rights ; )
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Re: Closing a discussion with a standard user PatrickGuay - Thu Oct 10 08:32:02 EDT 2013 Interesting, I will most certainly look into giving slightly more important people, slightly more rights ; )
Perhaps you want some kind of "Discussion-Admin" user who's password you let several folks know about. You could also maybe have some Discussion Group and a database wide pre-module-open trigger that logs the current user completely out of DOORS if they are use "Discussion-Admin" but not in the group. Maybe add a comment to the discussion "DELETE ME PLEASE" and let a real admin do so when they see it. -Louie |
Re: Closing a discussion with a standard user llandale - Thu Oct 10 10:24:22 EDT 2013 Perhaps you want some kind of "Discussion-Admin" user who's password you let several folks know about. You could also maybe have some Discussion Group and a database wide pre-module-open trigger that logs the current user completely out of DOORS if they are use "Discussion-Admin" but not in the group. Maybe add a comment to the discussion "DELETE ME PLEASE" and let a real admin do so when they see it. -Louie This being said, I am the admin and I don't want that kind of overhead. (I could probably script it in order to close all DELETE ME PLEASE discussions automatically). However, one of the nice things about discussions is that we enter the name of the person who closed the discussion for future reference. Therefore, if my name is everywhere it kind of defeats the purpose.
For the moment I think I will promote system architects to CUstom user if achiving rights do the job. Standard users will have to bite the bullet for now. |