Jazz Forum Welcome to the Jazz Community Forum Connect and collaborate with IBM Engineering experts and users

Requesting permission to an asset

Questions
Tags
Users
Badges
Dave Hobbs
(26●2●2) Jun 13 '12, 11:19 a.m.
I understand that RAM can be configured to restrict access to an asset based on a users role and the assets category and type. Trying to download a restricted asset results in a message 'You are not authorized to download artifact "x" from asset "y" in state x.' and an action link 'Request permission to asset "x". It appears that permission requests are sent to the community administrator(s) for action.

Is it possible to change or extend this default behaviour? 

In RAM terms, we have a large number of restricted assets that are managed by community administrators. Access to those assets are controlled by a set of people with approval roles who are not community administrators. In some circumstances more that one approver is required to permit access to an asset.
 

0 votes

1 answer
6,185 views
0 votes

Accepted answer

Permanent link
Sheehan Anderson
JAZZ DEVELOPER (1.2k●4) Jun 13 '12, 2:51 p.m.
See Granting requested permissions for assets and delegating permission requests.  This feature was introduced in RAM 7.5.1.
Rich Kulp selected this answer as the correct answer

0 votes

Comments
Dave Hobbs
Jun 14 '12, 5:43 a.m.
Thanks Sheehan, I hadn't seen that new feature. Is there a way to audit permission requests? Once the permission has been granted and the task closed the request vanishes. We have a need to cbn who has access to what. Our actual requirement is to have workflow associated with granting permissions. It would be ideal if these 'tasks' were raised in RTC then we could tailor the workflow of how permission is granted. We have thousands of requests for access to restricted material.

Dave Hobbs
Jun 14 '12, 9:42 a.m.
I noticed that the Administration 'Repository Statistics - Activity Audit' report shows tasks submitted and completed, although I haven't figured out how a user knows what they have permission to access. Is that visible? I don't think I was clear on my original question. We have assets which require the approval of a set of people with differing roles e.g management, legal and content managers. They all need to approve a request for access before being permitted to download asset content. It would be great if RAM could handle this kind of scenario.

Your answer

Register or log in to post your answer.

Dashboards and work items are no longer publicly available, so some links may be invalid. We now provide similar information through other means. Learn more here.

Ask a question
Guidelines
FAQ
Search context
Follow this question

By Email: 

Once you sign in you will be able to subscribe for any updates here.

By RSS:

Answers
Answers and Comments
Question details
× 12,144

Question asked: Jun 13 '12, 11:19 a.m.

Question was seen: 6,185 times

Last updated: Jun 14 '12, 9:42 a.m.

Confirmation Cancel Confirm