Use-Cases

Below are some typical use-cases for administration tasks:

Allow a user to manage a single repository and its data

In this case you want to allow a particular person to manage both the description of a repository and archival descriptions which it holds. For safely, we don't want to let the user delete the repository, or inadvertently create archival descriptions elsewhere.

The steps are as follows:

1. Get the user access to the admin pages.

2. Create a new group for users who manage the given repository.

3. Add the user to the new group.

4. Set item-level permissions on the given repository so that the new group can update it, but not delete it.

5. Set scoped permissions on the repository so that the new group can create, update, and delete Documentary Unit items within it.

Note: in this case it's perfectly possible to assign the item-level and scoped permissions directly to the user rather than to a new group that might only have one member. Creating a group is preferable however for the following reasons:

• permissions can be revoked by simply deleting the group.

• it's clearer to other administrators that a repository is managed by specific people if there's a group for the purpose.