a few more user / permission questions

I’m back from vacation and back at it with some more Revo user/role/access questions.

1. What is the significance of parent/child relationships with user groups. Does a child group inherit anything from its parent group? Are members of child groups de facto members of the parent group? Or is the parent/child group feature just for organizing groups?

2. How would I go about ensuring that new resources are affiliated by default with certain resource groups? I want to have a Resource Group affiliated with each User Group, and when ever a member of user group X creates a resource, it belongs to resource group X. Ideally I want to make this not only the default, but the unalterable default for most users.

3. Related to #2 or possibly in place of #2, how do I ensure that a child resource inherits the Resource Group settings from its parent? If a user is a member of group XX and also groups YY and ZZ, I probably want the Resource Group settings of a new resource to be inherited from the parent resource.

Quote from: jrotering at Mar 09, 2010, 09:10 AM

1. What is the significance of parent/child relationships with user groups. Does a child group inherit anything from its parent group? Are members of child groups de facto members of the parent group? Or is the parent/child group feature just for organizing groups?

Just organizational at the moment. We will be working towards inheritable memberships, permissions, etc.

Quote from: jrotering at Mar 09, 2010, 09:10 AM

2. How would I go about ensuring that new resources are affiliated by default with certain resource groups? I want to have a Resource Group affiliated with each User Group, and when ever a member of user group X creates a resource, it belongs to resource group X. Ideally I want to make this not only the default, but the unalterable default for most users.

Can easily be done with a Plugin registered to OnBeforeDocFormSave I believe.

Quote from: jrotering at Mar 09, 2010, 09:10 AM

3. Related to #2 or possibly in place of #2, how do I ensure that a child resource inherits the Resource Group settings from its parent? If a user is a member of group XX and also groups YY and ZZ, I probably want the Resource Group settings of a new resource to be inherited from the parent resource.

Good question; those things need to be worked out for your requirements for sure, but you should have flexibility in how you want to control this.