[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Documentation issue or client set-up issue? Local Sys Admin permissions

[Soulliere, Robert]

Jenny,

This is an error with the DIG documentation. I grabbed the information from the SITKA documentation which had their customized settings and not the default out-of-the-box settings. I did not have a clean database to test against.

There may be other discrepancies so I will remove the table at: http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/admin-staff_accounts.html until I can verify the out of the box settings.

Thanks for lbringing this to our attention.

Robert



Robert Soulliere, BA (Hons), MLIS
Systems Librarian
Mohawk College Library
robert.soulliere at mohawkcollege.ca
Telephone: 905 575 1212 x3936
Fax: 905 575 2011
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From: open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [open-ils-documentation-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Turner, Jennifer M [jennifer.turner at mnsu.edu]
Sent: December 6, 2010 1:10 PM
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Subject: [OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Documentation issue or client set-up issue? Local Sys Admin permissions

Hello DIG’ers,

I am not sure if an issue I’m having with testing documentation is an issue with the documentation itself or with how the default/non-customized staff client is set up, but thought I would ask the smaller list first…

The documentation (I’m assuming SITKA-contributed, because it mirrors what is available on SITKA’s site) mentions that Local System Administrators should be able to edit/create Group Penalty Thresholds for their organizations (http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/lsa-group-penalty.html).  In my experience, the only login that is able to edit these is the “superadmin” or System Account Administrator.  When I attempt to create another admin user and give this user “Local System Administrator” permissions, he/she is unable to select a “Context Location” from the dropdown menu and, therefore, unable to create any Group Penalty Thresholds.

When I first encountered this issue, I was using a slightly customized set of permissions and figured that might be the issue.  However, I am now testing it using a fresh install with the default set of permissions and am still unable to perform certain administrative functions using anything by the super-administrator login (which we would like to NOT give out to our local library administrators).

I have similar issues with other administrative functions, but this is a good example of the problem.  What do we not have set correctly?  Or is there an error in the documentation?

Thanks for any insight – especially from the SITKA folks!

Jenny

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