[SPT/CWIS] viewing of resources by user type

[Edward Almasy]

On May 2, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Chris Beck wrote:
> The new version of CWIS allows Per-Field User Permission Names.   
> This allows the administrator to define different user types so that  
> different users can see different fields in a record.  I would like  
> to set up different user types and make certain resources available  
> to the different types.  The same fields would be viewable by all  
> types, just certain users couldn’t view all of the resources.  Is  
> there a way to do this?
>

Unfortunately there isn't any easy way to do this with the current  
version of the software;  there are a lot of places where resources  
records are processed in bulk, and we chose to hard code the filtering  
of entire records to be tied to the "Release Flag" field for  
performance reasons.

That said, it's clear there are situations like yours where this would  
be a very valuable capability, and the hardware most sites are running  
on has a lot more horsepower than it did a few years ago, so I think  
this is something we'll revisit soon.

Ed


---
    Edward Almasy                             ealmasy at scout.wisc.edu
    Co-Director                                 1210 W Dayton Street
    Internet Scout                                  Madison WI 53706
    Computer Sciences Department                608-262-6606 (voice)
    University of Wisconsin - Madison             608-265-9296 (fax)