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:
- Get the user access to the admin pages.
- Create a new group for users who manage the given repository.
- Add the user to the new group.
- Set item-level permissions on the given repository so that the new group can update it, but not delete it.
- 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.