[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] permissions and editing patron records

[Thomas Berezansky]

Each permission group has a permission assigned to it that you would  
need to grant for people to be able to edit those patrons. You can see  
what is assigned by looking at the permission/profile groups themselves.

MVLC has a "patron" group, for example, that we assign "patron staff  
members" to. Only our central site staff can edit that group, ensuring  
that desk staff and volunteers don't change the passwords of other  
staff members.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Erik Stevens <technology at haineslibrary.org>:

> Hi Evergreen Community,
>
> I have a noobish question/problem about permissions that I'm sure has an
> easy answer:
>
> We have a Volunteer login for the staff client that is limited in its
> permissions. One thing it currently cannot do is edit patron info using the
> Edit tab in the patron record pages.
>
> We are trying to allow this account to save edits to patron records but I
> cannot seem to make this work (the save buttons are disabled). I have tried
> giving the account the CREATE_USER and UPDATE_USER permissions, with the
> editing permission level set to staff or patron-level (and then running
> autogen), but this doesn't do it. The volunteer account can only save
> changes to its own patron record, not anyone else's.
>
> What am I missing here? What has to be enabled to allow saving changes to
> other patron records? We are running Evergreen 2.1.
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> --
> Erik Stevens
> Technology Coordinator
> Haines Borough Public Library
>