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Competence profiles can be assigned to Roles

Page Overview

1 Initial Problem
2 Conceptual Summary
3 User Interface Modifications
- 3.1 List of Affected Views
- 3.2 User Interface Details
- 3.3 New User Interface Concepts
4 Technical Information
5 Contact
6 Funding
7 Discussion
8 Implementation

1 Initial Problem

Only individual users can be assigned to Competence Profiles. This is posing a problem in daily business, since it is tideous.

2 Conceptual Summary

It should be possible to assign Global or Local Roles to Competence Profiles.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

Administration > Competence Management > Profiles > Assigned Users

3.2 User Interface Details

Administration > Assign to Global Roles

Administration > Assign to Local Roles

Course / Group > Assign to Local Roles

Please consult Assign Competence Profiles to Courses and Groups

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

None.

4 Technical Information

No technical issues. Role deletion will remove these assignments.

5 Contact

Author of the Request: Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]
Maintainer: Killing, Alexander [alex]
Implementation of the feature is done by: {The maintainer must add the name of the implementing developer.}

6 Funding

If you are interest in funding this feature, please add your name and institution to this list.

7 Discussion

Killing, Alexander [alex], 11 Feb 2019: Including local roles or only global ones?

Kiegel, Colin [kiegel] 2019-02-14: Please clarify what happens, if

... a user is assigned to the role, after creating the mapping -> will this user be assigned to the competence? (my preference: yes)
1. will it be possible to individually deassign a competence from a user, while he still has that role (my preference: no, in order to keep consistency for that role)
... a user is deassigned from the role, after creating the mapping -> will this user be deassigned from the competence? (my preference: yes, except for special cases)
1. special case: ... two users A and B are assigned to a competence individually (1:1), then user A is redundantly assigned to the same competence via role, then user A is deassigned from that role -> will user A be deassigned from the competence, or will he keep it, because he was assigned manually before? (my preference: keep)

So my mental model for this would be "independent layers", layer one is "individual assignment", layer two would be "indirect assignment via org-units" - and layer three "indirect assignment via rbac-roles". All layers would "add up", but changes in one layer would not interfere with the other layer.

Killing, Alexander [alex], 14 Feb 2019: Colin, I agree with your understanding of how the behaviour should be in all points. I do not want to store any redundant information here. The existence of the "role to user" assignment defines the "user to profile" relationship.

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 19 FEB 2019 : Renamed page to "Competence profiles..." to make clear that it tackles the competence profiles and not personal profiles.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 25 FEB 2019: We highly appreciate this suggestion but need some modifications before scheduling this feature:

Please use the workflow for "Sharing" ressources in the Personal Workspace to assign cometence profiles to roles. This will include all members - even those who are added to the role after the assignment has been made (unlike the screens shown above).
Please consider if the assignment of competence profiles should also be allowed in the (local) role management or if should only be restricted to the competence management.

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 04 MAR 2019 : The current suggestion above would like to implement a workflow where a user (tutor/admin) first has to choose the type of role and then selects from a list of existing roles. For larger installations such a list of groups or courses could be very long. Assignment would become very time-consuming. How about re-using the workflow for assigning users to an existing role. In this case, ILIAS is offering a search file to reduce the list of target roles easily. I have added a related mock-up for this.

In case of "All Members of a Course Role" or "... Group Role", ILIAS would offer the screen "SELECT LOCAL ROLE" suggested above to choose the exact local role of the course or group. "All Members of a Role" need an additional screen for distinguishing between "global" roles, "local roles (auto-generated)" and "local roles (self-generated)".

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 11 MAR 2019: We highly appreciate this suggestion and schedule it for 6.0. We would like to re-use the known pattern from adding members to a course or role like drawn by Matthias above (incl. search field). This screen is triggered by a button "Add Assignment" on Administration » Competence Management : Profiles. After listing the roles that match to the search term a multi-action "Assign" is displayed and used to finish the assignment of a competence to a role.