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Test Question Pool: Change RBAC for editing and delete

1 Initial Problem

At the time being, we cannot just allow users to take questions from a question pool and use them in their test _and_ prevent them from modifying the questions in the pool. If they can use the questions from the pool they also can edit them.

Reason for this is that in the Test question pool one need only READ permission to edit and delete questions. This is not the case in the question pool of the Survey. There you need EDIT SETTINGS. And in other objects, editing is often linked to EDIT SETTIGS if there is no separate EDIT CONTENT or EDIT PAGE or similar permission.

2 Conceptual Summary

We change the RBAC settings of the Question Pool Test as follows:

  • EDIT SETTINGS permission is required for editing test questions in and deleting test question from the pool.
  • READ permission only provides the opportunity to read test questions and see the preview.
  • READ permission is sufficient to use a question from a question pool in a test.

Existing Questions Pools will be migrated. Roles that actually have READ permission gets also EDIT SETTINGS.

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

  • no view is affected

3.2 User Interface Details

The GUI will not be changed.

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

none

3.4 Accessibility Implications

no changes

4 Additional Information

4.1 Involved Authorities

If this request is related to multiple components, please list both authorities for all related components.

4.2 Technical Aspects

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4.3 Privacy

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4.4 Security

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4.5 Contact

Person to be contacted in case of questions about the feature or for funding offers:  Strassner, Denis [dstrassner]

4.6 Funding

Funding status and funding parties are listed in the block 'Status of Feature' in the right column of this page.

If you are interested to give funding for this feature, please get into contact with the person mentioned above as 'Contact'.

5 Discussion

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 04 DEC 2024: Thanks for this feature request. If streamlining is our major focus, requiring EDIT SETTINGS for editing and deleting questions would be the best choice. The test question pool would then behave like the survey question pool.

But we could also add a new permission EDIT CONTENT and require this permission for editing and deleting questions. EDIT CONTENT is a permission that is often used in components to handle the content editing and separate it from the editing of settings. In this case test question pool and survey question pool would still behave differently. But maybe this is an approach that could be used for pool components in general (e.g. media pool). If we would introduce EDIT CONTENT in the test question pool, the migration would add EDIT CONTENT to all roles that currently have READ permission.

6 Implementation

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6.1 Description and Screenshots

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6.2 Test Cases

Test cases completed at {date} by {user}

  • {Test case number linked to Testrail} : {test case title}

6.3 Privacy

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6.4 Approval

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Last edited: 4. Dec 2024, 13:34, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]