Abandon DataCollection Permission `Add/Edit Entry`

1 Reasons to Abandon Feature

There is frequent confusion regarding the status of ILIAS 11: there is a permission called “Add/Edit Entry.”

This does not correlate directly with the “Add Entries” and “Edit Entries” functions in the settings of a table in a data collection.

The setting is made for each table. The permission applies to the entire data collection.

2 Additional Information

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2.3 Contact

Person to be contacted in case of questions about the request or for funding offers: Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]

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3 Discussion

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Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 16 JAN 2026: I am not sure if I understand the reason for abandonning the ‘Add/Edit entry’ permission correctly. You want to keep the settings for a table, section ‘Record Settings’ – but you remove the related permission that give users the options defined by these settings? I do not understand how this could work? In the future, how will I enforce a role to add new entries to a selected table without giving them the permission ‘Edit Settings’? ‘Read’ permission isn't an option. Until now, it is the ‘Add/Edit entry’ permission (unfortunately, this information got lost in the settings with ILIAS 10, see below).

I understand that it is a bit tricky that a user needs a special permission for the entire data collection and in addition that settings for the selected table have to be set. But that is due to the complexity of this feature and the fact, that tables are not controlled by RBAC (fortunately). But maybe I miss something.

4 Implementation

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